Open AccessStudy of foil explosion using the soft x-ray radiography
Author(s) -
A. S. Zhigalin,
V. I. Oreshkin,
A. G. Rousskikh,
R. B. Baksht
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1556/1/012055
Subject(s) - foil method , metastability , materials science , aluminum foil , superheating , atomic physics , physics , composite material , layer (electronics) , condensed matter physics , quantum mechanics
The experiments were carried out upon a research facility comprising three current generators. One of them was used to initiate the explosion of a foil and the other two, X-pinch backlighting sources were used for diagnostics. In the experiments, an upper limit has been determined for the decay time of the metastable state of a superheated metal. For aluminum, at a foil thickness of 6 μ m and a deposited energy of 5.3 ± 0.5 kJ/g, the metastable state decay time was about 90 ns; for copper, at the same foil thickness and a deposited energy of 2.1 ± 0.3 kJ/g, it was about 250 ns; for nickel at the same foil thickness and a deposited energy of 1.3 ± 0.4 kJ/g, it was about 390 ns.