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William E. Fowler
Researcher at Sandia National Laboratories
Publications - 40
Citations - 905
William E. Fowler is an academic researcher from Sandia National Laboratories. The author has contributed to research in topics: Linear transformer driver & Pulsed power. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 40 publications receiving 848 citations.
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Characteristics and scaling of tungsten-wire-array z -pinch implosion dynamics at 20 MA.
M. E. Cuneo,Eduardo Waisman,Sergey Lebedev,J. P. Chittenden,William A. Stygar,Gordon A. Chandler,Roger Alan Vesey,Edmund Yu,Thomas J. Nash,David E. Bliss,G. S. Sarkisov,T. C. Wagoner,G. R. Bennett,Daniel Sinars,John L. Porter,Walter W. Simpson,L. E. Ruggles,David Franklin Wenger,Christopher Joseph Garasi,Bryan V. Oliver,R. A. Aragon,William E. Fowler,M C Hettrick,G. C. Idzorek,Duane D. Johnson,K. L. Keller,S. Lazier,J. S. McGurn,Thomas Alan Mehlhorn,T. C. Moore,D. S. Nielsen,J. Pyle,S. Speas,Kenneth W. Struve,Jose A. Torres +34 more
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.
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Development and tests of fast 1-MA linear transformer driver stages
A.A. Kim,Michael G. Mazarakis,V. A. Sinebryukhov,B. M. Kovalchuk,V.A. Visir,S.N. Volkov,F. Bayol,A.N. Bastrikov,V.G. Durakov,S. V. Frolov,V. M. Alexeenko,Dillon H. McDaniel,William E. Fowler,K. R. LeChien,Craig L. Olson,William A. Stygar,Kenneth W. Struve,John L. Porter,Ronald M. Gilgenbach +18 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the design and test results of the most powerful, fast linear transformer driver (LTD) stage developed to date, which consists of 40 parallel RLC (resistor R, inductor L, and capacitor C) circuits called ''bricks'' that are triggered simultaneously.
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High-Current Linear Transformer Driver Development at Sandia National Laboratories
Michael G. Mazarakis,William E. Fowler,K. L. LeChien,F. W. Long,M. Keith Matzen,Dillon H. McDaniel,R. McKee,Craig L. Olson,John L. Porter,S.T. Rogowski,Kenneth W. Struve,William A. Stygar,Joe R Woodworth,A.A. Kim,V.A. Sinebryukhov,Ronald M. Gilgenbach,Matthew R. Gomez,David M. French,Yue Ying Lau,J. C. Zier,D.M. VanDeValde,R. A. Sharpe,Kevin S. Ward +22 more
TL;DR: Sandia is actively pursuing the development of new accelerators based on the new technology of the Linear Transformer Driver (LTD), and is preparing a new LTD laboratory to house the 10, 1-MA, 100-kV LTD cavities recently constructed and received from the HCEI, Tomsk, Russia.
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High current, 0.5-MA, fast, 100-ns, linear transformer driver experiments
Michael G. Mazarakis,William E. Fowler,A.A. Kim,V.A. Sinebryukhov,S.T. Rogowski,R. A. Sharpe,Dillon H. McDaniel,Craig L. Olson,John L. Porter,Kenneth W. Struve,William A. Stygar,Joseph Ray Woodworth +11 more
TL;DR: The linear transformer driver (LTD) is a new method for constructing high-current, high-voltage pulsed accelerators as discussed by the authors, which switches and inductively adds the pulses at low voltage straight out of the capacitors through low inductance transfer and soft iron core isolation.
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Results of vacuum cleaning techniques on the performance of LiF field-threshold ion sources on extraction applied-B ion diodes at 1-10 TW
M. E. Cuneo,P.R. Menge,David Lester Hanson,William E. Fowler,M.A. Bernard,G.R. Ziska,A.B. Filuk,Timothy D. Pointon,Roger Alan Vesey,Dale Welch,James E. Bailey,Michael P. Desjarlais,T.R. Lockner,Thomas Alan Mehlhorn,S. A. Slutz,M.A. Stark +15 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors applied RF discharge cleaning, anode heating, cathode cooling, and substrate surface coatings to the control of the effects of these plasmas in the particular case of applied-B ion diodes on the SABRE (1 TW) and PBFA-X (30 TW) accelerators.