Open AccessExperimental study of insulated aluminum planar wire array Z pinches
Author(s) -
Liang Sheng,
Li Yang,
Yuan Yuan,
Peng Bodong,
Mo Li,
Mei Zhang,
Jianlong Zhao,
Wei Fuli,
Liangping Wang,
Hei Dong-Wei,
Aici Qiu
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
wuli xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 1000-3290
DOI - 10.7498/aps.63.055201
Subject(s) - implosion , materials science , z pinch , resistive touchscreen , aluminium , planar , polyimide , pinch , yield (engineering) , radiation , composite material , plasma , optics , physics , electrical engineering , nuclear physics , computer graphics (images) , layer (electronics) , computer science , engineering
The planar wire array Z pinch experiments with insulated aluminum wires coated with 2 μm polyimide were carried out on "QiangGuang-I" facility (100ns, 1.3 MA) and compared to those with ordinary aluminum wires. Experimental results indicate that surface insulation can affect the implosion dynamics and radiation character of Z pinches. The resistive heating energy and imploding mass may be increased by exploiting the effect of surface insulation. In the surface-insulated wire array Z pinch experiments the multi-peak phenomena were considerably suppressed, whereas the improvement on the X-ray yield was not observed.