Peculiarities of wire resistance behavior on initial stage of explosion

Abstract

Large achievements in soft X-ray production were obtained by Sandia with multiwire array implosion. The efficiency of the generator energy conversion to radiation strongly depends upon the quality of the plasma shell. Thus the investigation of the initial stage of wire explosion and the method of plasma shell creation are very important. To study the different processes of plasma creation at the initial stage of wire explosion the precision voltage on the wire array axis and current measurements have been carried out.