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A new method of low-impedance rod-pinch diode formation has been proposed and used. With this approach, the rod-pinch diode is preliminarily shorted by a thin radial foil. A low-impedance diode is formed when the foil, accelerated by current of a high-current generator, is detached from the anode rod. It is established that a series of sequential current closures via plasma of the foil and rod in this configuration can be used to obtain a train of short hard X-ray pulses.
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Original Russian Text © S.A. Sorokin, 2014, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2014, Vol. 40, No. 16, pp. 22–28.
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Sorokin, S.A. Generating high-power hard X-ray pulses in a rod-pinch diode with radial foil. Tech. Phys. Lett. 40, 687–689 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785014080264
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