Fast resistive bolometry
- Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-1194 (United States)
Resistive bolometry is an accurate, robust, spectrally broadband technique for measuring absolute x-ray fluence and flux. Bolometry is an independent technique for x-ray measurements that is based on a different set of physical properties than other diagnostics such as x-ray diodes, photoconducting detectors, and P-I-N diodes. Bolometers use the temperature-driven change in element resistivity to determine the total deposited energy. The calibration of such a device is based on fundamental material properties and its physical dimensions. We describe the use of nickel and gold bolometers to measure x rays generated by high-power {ital z} pinches on Sandia{close_quote}s Saturn and {ital Z} accelerators. The Sandia bolometer design described herein has a pulse response of {approximately}1 ns. We describe in detail the fabrication, fielding, and data analysis issues leading to highly accurate x-ray measurements. The fundamental accuracy of resistive bolometry will be discussed. {copyright} {ital 1999 American Institute of Physics.}
- OSTI ID:
- 295640
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-980605-; ISSN 0034-6748; TRN: 99:001826
- Journal Information:
- Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 70, Issue 1; Conference: 12. topical conference on high-temperature plasma diagnostics, Princeton, NJ (United States), 7-11 Jun 1998; Other Information: PBD: Jan 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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