The effects of preheating of a fine tungsten wire and the polarity of a high-voltage electrode on the energy characteristics of an electrically exploded wire in vacuum

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 34, Issue 5 III, 2006, Pages 2232-2238

  Rousskikh, Alexander G ^a   Baksht, Rina B ^a   Chaikovsky, Stanislav A ^a   Fedunin, Anatoly V ^a   Khishchenko, Konstantin V ^b   Labetsky, Aleksey Yu ^a   Levashov, Pavel R ^b   Shishlov, Alexander V ^a   Tkachenko, Svetlana I ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH CURRENT ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

^b JOINT INSTITUTE FOR HIGH TEMPERATURES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Breakdown; Electrical explosion; Energy deposition; Tungsten; Wire array

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PREHEATING; TUNGSTEN; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

ELECTRICAL EXPLOSION; ENERGY DEPOSITION; HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRODE; TUNGSTEN WIRE; WIRE ARRAY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES;

EID: 33750425778     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2006.883385     Document Type: Article

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