Development of Compact Plasma Radiation Source (CPRS) at IAC for imaging
The needs in Compact Pulsed Power X-Pinch Generators
- N.Ratakhin et al. "Compact pulse power generator for X-pinch researches" 28th ICPIG, July 15-20, 2007, Prague, Czech Republi [1]
"The main requirements imposed on the generator are the current amplitude 150-300 kA and the rate of the current rise 1-2 kA/ns. At the moment, these parameters of the current pulse can be provided only by enough large fixed-site generators weighing from 300 kg to several tons. These shortcomings limit to a great extent the feasibility of this diagnostic technique in studies of extreme states. Therefore, the design of a portable pulse generator which provides the required parameters makes it possible to proceed to a new level of diagnostics of fast processes."
Design's Possibilities
PRS based on transformation of ISIS Induction Cell Driver
File:ISIS Modification for X-pinch 012813.pdf
PRS based on building separate Marx Generator or (Marx Generator + Pulse Forming Line)
PRS based on Linear Transformer Driver (LTD) technologies
- A. A. Kim Development and tests of fast 1-MA linear transformer driver stages Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 12, 050402 (2009)
"The LTD driver is an induction generator similar to the linear induction accelerator (LIA) [1,2], the inductive voltage adder (IVA) [3–6], and the linear pulsed transformer (LPT)"
- M.G.Mazarakis A compact, high-voltage e-beam pulser 1999 IEEE [2]
- M.G.Mazarakis Ultrafast LTD's for bremsstrahlung diodes and Z-pinches 2002 IEEE [3]
- A.A.Kim 1 MV ULTRA-FAST LTD GENERATOR 2003 IEEE [4]
- M.G.Mazarakis HIGH CURRENT FAST 100-NS LTD DRIVER DEVELOPMENT IN SANDIA LABORATORY 2005 IEEE [5]
- M.G.Mazarakis Conceptual Design for a Linear-Transformer Driver (LTD)-Based Refurbishment and Upgrade of the Saturn Accelerator Pulse-Power System SANDIA REPORT SAND2006-5811, 2006 [6]
- M.G. Mazarakis Linear Transformer Driver (LTD) development at Sandia national laboratory 2009 IEEE [7]
- J.R.Woodworth Low-inductance gas switches for linear transformer drivers Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 12, 060401 (2009) [8]
- W.A.Stygar Shaping the output pulse of a linear-transformer-driver module Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 12, 030402 (2009) [9]
- A.A. Kim Development and tests of fast 1-MA linear transformer driver stages Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 12, 050402 (2009) [10]