Electrical conductivity measurement in dense metal plasmas : Comparisons of several metals

The Thermophysical Properties of Iron Plasma

“…We have checked this condition. It is fulfilled for T ≥ 10 kK and densities ρ ≤ 1 g/cm 3 , which corresponds to the area studied in [6][7][8]. The densities and temperatures reached in [9,10] are corresponds to E ≈1.…”

“…In particular the shock wave compression was applied to obtain the thermodynamical values under study along Hugoniot adiabat for Cu, Ni and Fe [3][4][5]. Another one experimental approach is based on the explosions of the metallic conductors (foils or wires) due to the applied high currents [6][7][8][9][10][11]. Besides the thermodynamical values the electrical conductivity has been measured by this technique.…”

“…Presently, we have modified our model to apply it to Fe plasma. The experimental data for the electrical conductivity of Fe plasma are presented in [6][7][8][9][10]. In [9,10] the pressure and internal energy were measured too.…”

“…We should note that the temperature can not be measured directly in these experiments. So usually the internal energy data are used to obtain the temperature by means of some model equation of states [6] or by means of some recalculations (see [11]). The temperatures and densities achieved in the considered experiments correspond to the region, where the application of our model is still correct.…”

Nanosecond electric explosion of wires: from solid superheating to nonideal plasma formation

“…Electric explosion of wires is one of the applications of non-ideal (strongly coupled) plasma [1,2,3,4,5,6] and on the other hand is an important means of nonideal plasma generation [7,8,9]. Nowadays timescales of electric explosion of metal wires cover the region from micro-to nanoseconds.…”