New trends and future perspectives on plasma focus research

L Soto - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper includes a brief overview of the contributions and results of several groups
working in plasma focus (PF) devices around the world in the last few years. In section 2 a …

Demonstration of neutron production in a table-top pinch plasma focus device operating at only tens of joules

L Soto, P Silva, J Moreno, M Zambra… - Journal of Physics D …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Neutron emission from a deuterium plasma pinch generated in a very small plasma focus (6
mm anode diameter) operating at only tens of joules is presented. A maximum current of 50 …

Studies on scalability and scaling laws for the plasma focus: Similarities and differences in devices from 1 MJ to 0.1 J

L Soto, C Pavez, A Tarifeno, J Moreno… - … Sources Science and …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
A comprehensive analysis of scaling laws for plasma focus devices producing neutrons is
presented. Similarities and differences in plasma focus devices working with stored energies …

Research with plasma foci in countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America

AE Dubinov, EI Fomicheva, LA Senilov - Reviews of Modern Plasma …, 2020 - Springer
This paper considers the modern level of technique, research, and application of “plasma
focus” facilities in the countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. A description of the …

Drive parameter as a design consideration for Mather and Filippov types of plasma focus

T Zhang, RS Rawat, SM Hassan, JJ Lin… - IEEE transactions on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Experiments show that the performance of the plasma focus (PF) depends on several
macroscopic parameters like the energy of the capacitor bank, current, voltage, electrodes …

Research on pinch plasma focus devices of hundred of kilojoules to tens of joules

L Soto, P Silva, J Moreno, G Silvester… - Brazilian journal of …, 2004 - SciELO Brasil
At present the Plasma Physics and Plasma Technology Group of the Comisión Chilena de
Energía Nuclear (CCHEN) has the experimental facilities in order to study fast dense …

Compact sub-kilojoule range fast miniature plasma focus as portable neutron source

R Verma, MV Roshan, F Malik, P Lee… - Plasma Sources …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
As a first step toward the development of a compact and portable, quasi-continuous pulsed
neutron source, we have demonstrated a'fast miniature plasma focus (PF) device'as a …

Pinch evidence in a fast and small plasma focus of only tens of joules

P Silva, L Soto, W Kies, J Moreno - Plasma Sources Science and …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
The pinch evidence in a deuterium-filled plasma focus (PF) of only tens of joules is
presented. The system operates at a very low energy in the tens of joules range (160 nF …

Experimental study of neutron emission characteristics in a compact sub-kilojoule range miniature plasma focus device

R Verma, RS Rawat, P Lee, M Krishnan… - Plasma Physics and …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
In order to gain insight into the possible neutron production mechanism in sub-kilojoule
miniature plasma foci, the anisotropy in neutron and hard x-ray emissions from a newly …

Neutron and high energy deuteron anisotropy investigations in plasma focus device

MV Roshan, RS Rawat, A Talebitaher, P Lee… - Physics of …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
The anisotropies of neutron and high energy deuteron emissions from the NX2 plasma focus
device [MV Roshan et al, Phys. Lett. A 373, 851 (2009)] are studied. The nuclear activation …