The effect of insulating coatings on exploding wire plasma formation

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 429-432

  Sinars, D B ^a   Shelkovenko, T A ^a   Pikuz, S A ^a   hu, Min ^a   Romanova, V M ^a   Chandler, K M ^a   Greenly, J B ^a   Hammer, D A ^a   Kusse, B R ^a  

^a Department of Materials Science and Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

COATINGS; EXPLODING WIRES; IMPLOSIONS; LINEAR Z PINCH DEVICES; PINCH EFFECT; PLASMA PRODUCTION; SILVER; TUNGSTEN

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000188412     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: 10897674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.873825     Document Type: Letter

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