Edmund Yu

TL;DR: The Z accelerator at Sandia National Laboratories delivers ∼20MA load currents to create high magnetic fields (>1000T) and high pressures (megabar to gigabar) in a z-pinch configuration, the magnetic pressure supersonically implodes a plasma created from a cylindrical wire array, which at stagnation typically generates a plasma with energy densities of about 10MJ∕cm3 and temperatures >1keV at 0.1% of solid density as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Cuneo et al. as discussed by the authors showed that very late acceleration is not a universal aspect of wire array implosions and varied the ablation period between 46% +/-2% and 71%+/-3% of the stagnation time.

TL;DR: The magnetized liners inertial fusion (MagLIF) concept was introduced by Slutz and Vesey as mentioned in this paper, which is in the class of magneto-inertial fusion targets.

TL;DR: The 80-TW "Z" pulsed power facility at Sandia National Laboratories as discussed by the authors is the largest pulsed-power device in the world today, and it can discharge up to 22'MJ of energy stored in its capacitor banks into a current pulse that rises in 100'ns and peaks at a current as high as 30 MA in low-inductance cylindrical targets.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of electrothermal instabilities on the dynamics of magnetically accelerated implosion systems is explored and the results of several experiments performed on Sandia National Laboratories Z accelerator to investigate signatures of electro-thermal instability growth on initially solid aluminum and copper rods driven with a 20 MA, 100 ns current pulse.