The paper deals with the soft X-ray backlighting based on the X-pinch as a powerful tool for physical studies of fast processes. Proposed are the unique small-size pulsed power generators operating as a low-inductance capacitor bank. These pulse generators provide the X-pinch-based soft X-ray source (hν = 1–10 keV) of micron size at 2–3 ns pulse duration. The small size and weight of pulse generators allow them to be transported to any laboratory for conducting X-ray backlighting of test objects with micron space resolution and nanosecond exposure time. These generators also allow creating synchronized multi-frame radiographic complexes with frame delay variation in a broad range.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 8, pp. 131–135, August, 2017.
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Chaikovsky, S.A., Artyomov, A.P., Zharova, N.V. et al. Small-Size High-Current Generators for X-Ray Backlighting. Russ Phys J 60, 1408–1412 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11182-017-1229-x
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