PLASMA
FOCUS AS A SOURCE OF INTENSE RADIATION AND PLASMA STREAMS FOR TECHNOLOGICAL
APPLICATIONS
Dense
Plasma Focus
Dense
Plasma Focus, a device invented more than 30 years ago, is until now one of the
most
bright and
efficient source of ionizing radiation (neutrons, soft and hard X-rays,
electron and
ion
streams). Being relatively cheap and flexible (energy stored in condenser
battery and
driving the
phenomena from 0.2 kJ up to 1MJ) DPF fits very well to a number of applications
in
different fields e.g. nanotechnology, material science, defectoscopy, biology,
medicine etc..
Already
investigated and existing applications of DPF, as well as those of future
potential are
presented
and discussed in the paper. Specific demands for radiation sources based on DPF
principle
to be used in above mentioned fields, problems encountered and methods how to
overcome them are briefly indicated
http://www.physics.sk/aps/pubs/2004/aps-2004-54-1-35.pdf
PLASMA
FOCUS AS A SOURCE OF INTENSE RADIATION AND PLASMA
STREAMS FOR
TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS1
M. Scholz2
, B.
Bienkowska, V. A. Gribkov, R. Miklaszewski ´
Institute
of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion
Hery 23,
P.O. Box 49, 00-908 Warsaw, Poland
Received 3 April 2003, accepted 28 April 2003