Final design and initial pulsed power results for the Decade quad plasma radiation source machine configurations
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Rix, W.; Altes, B.; Childers, K.; Corcoran, P.; Danforth, M.; Spence, P.; Sincerny, P.; Tucker, T.; Douglas, J.; Babineau, M.; Kenyon, V.; Christensen, L.; Whitehead, G.L.; Kurucz, P.; Ware, K.; Brandon, J.K.
- Source
- PPPS-2001 Pulsed Power Plasma Science 2001. 28th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science and 13th IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference. Digest of Papers (Cat. No.01CH37251) Pulsed power plasma science Pulsed Power Plasma Science, 2001. PPPS-2001. Digest of Technical Papers. 1:573-576 vol.1 2001
- Subject
- Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Plasma sources
Switches
Plasma displays
Nuclear and plasma sciences
Design engineering
Water resources
Hardware
Circuits
Light emitting diodes
Testing
- Language
At the 1999 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference, we reported on the preliminary design of a water coupler system that would combine the current from four individual Decade modules to drive a single plasma radiation source. The design has been finalized; the hardware has been fabricated and fielded on the Decade Quad at the Arnold Engineering Development Center. The final design issues associated with fabrication of the hardware and initial results into a short circuit load and imploding aluminum wire arrays are presented. We also present initial test results with the Decade Quad in the large area bremsstrahlung mode.