Energetic flash X-ray sources excited by Blumlein generators

Autor: Carl B. Collins, R.K. Krause, J. J. Coogan, Farzin Davanloo
Rok vydání: 1989
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Zdroj: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. :912-915
ISSN: 0168-583X
DOI: 10.1016/0168-583x(89)90506-5
Popis: Eight triaxial Blumlein circuits have been stacked in series at one end while being synchronously commuted at the other end with a single hydrogen thyratron. Having no other switching elements, operation has been possible at repetition rates up to 100 Hz. Improvement in matching an X-ray diode to this pulse power source has been realized, making possible the emission of an average bremsstrahlung exposure rate of 15 R/s from a sequence of 20 ns pulses. Recent advances in the development of this device resulting in open-circuit voltage gains approaching six times the charging voltage are described.
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