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Charge-coupled device systems for recording two-dimensional multi-mega-ampere z-pinch data.
Charge-coupled device systems for recording two-dimensional multi-mega-ampere z-pinch data.
- Source :
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Review of Scientific Instruments . Apr2001, Vol. 72 Issue 4, p2023. 9p. - Publication Year :
- 2001
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Abstract
- Hardware and software have been developed for recording and displaying accurate image and spectral data produced by z-pinch plasma radiation sources at the Double-EAGLE facility at Maxwell Physics International. Desktop computers are used to acquire the data, analyze it, and display and print the results. Of the four charge-coupled device (CCD) image recording systems implemented, two record x rays directly and two record optical light emission from electron-excited phosphors. The CCD systems required careful shielding to allow them to operate in the harsh radio frequency noise environment. During a series of shots at the SATURN facility at Sandia National Laboratories, the quality of a keV x-ray spectrum recorded directly with a CCD compared well with an equivalent spectrum recorded with 2497 film. © 2001 American Institute of Physics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *PINCH effect (Physics)
*CHARGE coupled devices
*PHOSPHORS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00346748
- Volume :
- 72
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Review of Scientific Instruments
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 4716631
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1355264