MAGPIE

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MAGPIE[1] stands for Mega Ampere Generator for Plasma Implosion Experiments and is a pulsed power generator based at Imperial College London, United Kingdom. The generator was originally designed to produce a current pulse with a maximum of 1.8 million Amperes in 240 nanoseconds (150 nanoseconds rise time). At present the machine is operated with a maximum current of approximately 1.4 million Amperes.

The generator consists of four voltage multipliers (Marx generators), each one containing 24 capacitors with a capacitance of 1.4 micro Henries each. At the maximum charging voltage of 100 kilo-Volts, an output voltage of 2.4 million Volts is produced and delivered into the load section.

References

  1. Mitchell, I. H. et al., "A high impedance mega-ampere generator for fiber z-pinch experiments", Review of Scientific Instruments 67, pp.1533-1541, April 1996.

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