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The generation of high-energy and high-current pulses is critical to the success of many scientific and engineering projects. High-energy, high-current pulses are needed to accelerate plasmas under laboratory conditions, power intense gas-discharge light sources, accelerate high-current electron beams, excite high-power lasers and microwave sources, accelerate projectiles in railguns, generate high-pressure pulses, and heat plasmas in thermonuclear fusion reactors [1.1,1.2], These high-current pulses are used to simulate processes that occur in space, during powerful explosions, and in aerodynamics, as well as to generate powerful shock waves and plasma flows in industrial processes. The technology involved in the production of these pulses is referred to as pulsed power technology, and it deals with the generation of very-high-power electromagnetic pulses and the coupling of these pulses into loads [1.3].
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Altgilbers, L.L. et al. (2000). Explosive-Driven Power Sources. In: Magnetocumulative Generators. High-Pressure Shock Compression of Condensed Matter. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1232-4_1
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