Soft x-ray yield measurement in a small plasma focus operated in neon

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 135-140

  Liu, Mahe ^a   Feng, Xianping ^a   Springham, Stuart V ^a   Lee, Sing ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Crystal spectrograph; Pin photodiode; Plasma; Plasma focus; Pulsed x ray calorimeter; Soft x ray

Indexed keywords

CALORIMETERS; NEON; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTODIODES; X RAY PRODUCTION; X RAY SPECTROGRAPHS;

PLASMA FOCUS; PULSED X RAY CALORIMETERS; SOFT X RAYS (SXR) SOURCES;

PLASMA DEVICES;

EID: 0032049841     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.669614     Document Type: Article

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