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Powerful Pulsed Plasma Generators

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Abstract

Applying of the pulsed plasma generators as powerful X-ray sources or sources of forplasma for fusion involves usage of plasma-forming gases with low molecular/atomic weight, such as hydrogen or helium at pressure up to hundreds of megapascals. Pulsed plasma generators are relatively simple devices, but their developments require novel technologies and materials. This is due to the parameters of the generated plasma and the characteristics of the electrical energy used to power them. Plasma parameters and characteristics of modern plasma generators are next:

  • Mean weight temperature of the gas up to 104 K

  • Gas pressure up to 1000 MPa

  • Discharge current up to 2 MA

  • Voltage up to 25 kV

  • Energy input in the arc up to 10 MJ.

Combination of these parameters shows the complexity of the problems those must be solved at the developing and study of these devices. Basic component of the pulsed plasma generators is electrodischarge chamber .

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  1. Institute for Electrophysics and Power Energetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Victor Kolikov, Alexander Bogomaz & Alexander Budin

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Kolikov, V., Bogomaz, A., Budin, A. (2018). Pulsed Plasma Generators. In: Powerful Pulsed Plasma Generators. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 101. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95249-9_3

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