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Electrical Conductivity of Strongly Coupled Zinc Plasmas ‐ First Results
Author(s) -
Haun J.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
contributions to plasma physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1521-3986
pISSN - 0863-1042
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1521-3986(200004)40:1/2<126::aid-ctpp126>3.0.co;2-f
Subject(s) - plasma , zinc , electrical resistivity and conductivity , vaporization , materials science , conductivity , warm dense matter , range (aeronautics) , atomic physics , metal , physics , thermodynamics , composite material , nuclear physics , metallurgy , quantum mechanics
Abstract Measurements are reported of the electrical conductivity of strongly coupled zinc plasmas in the temperature range 7 ‐ 15 kK, in a density range from about nearly solid state down to 4 g cm —3 . The plasmas were created by rapid vaporization of metal zinc wires surrounded by glass capillaries. The capillaries guarantee longer confinement times. The measurements are compared with some data from Kloss et al. [1], Otter et al. [2] and theoretical calculations by Likalter [3] and Ziman [4].