Dense Plasma Focus

15 kV, 30 mF, Mather-type

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Researchers:                      C.S. Wong , Jasbir Singh

Postgraduate Student:       S.L. Yap (PhD) , Tan Yoke Waie (MSc)

Oversea collaborators:      P. Choi & C. Dumitrescu-Zoita
                                            EPPRA sas, Courtaboeuf, France

R. Mongkolnavin & Dusit Ngamrungroj
                                            Department of Physics
                                            Faculty of Science
Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok, Thailand

The UNU-ICTP Plasma Focus Device

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Modified plasma focus for low pressure operation (plasma opening switch)

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Selected publications:

X-RAY EMISSION IN A SMALL PLASMA FOCUS OPERATING WITH H2-AR MIXTURES

M. Favre, S. Lee, S.P. Moo and C.S. Wong, Plasma Sources Sci.Technol. 1, 122 (1992)

GENERATION OF SOFT X-RAYS FROM THE FOCUSSED ARGON PLASMA

S.P. Moo and C.S. Wong, J.Fiz.Mal. 15, 37 (1994)

DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLASMA FOCUS AS A SOURCE OF HIGH INTENSITY SOFT X-RAYS

S.P. Moo, Mal. J. Sci. 15B, 67 (1994)

TIME RESOLVED HARD X-RAY EMISSION FROM A SMALL PLASMA FOCUS

S.P. Moo and C.S. Wong, Laser and Particle Beams 13, 129 (1995)

DYNAMICS OF X-RAY EMISSION FROM A SMALL PLASMA FOCUS

C.S.Wong, S.P.Moo, J.Singh, P.Choi, C.Dumitrescu-Zoita and C.Silawatshananai, Mal. J. Sci. 17B, 109(1996)

VARIATION OF SOFT X-RAY EMISSION WITH GAS PRESSURE IN A PLASMA FOCUS
C.M. Ng, S.P. Moo and C.S. Wong, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 26, 1146(1998)

ION BEAM MEASUREMENTS OF A LOW PRESSURE PLASMA FOCUS

S.L. Yap, J. Larour, P. Choi, J. Rous, S. Dine, G. Pavelescu, M. Favre, A. Guilbert, C.S. Wong, J. Fiz. Mal. 23, 47 (2002).

GENERATION OF HIGH ENERGY ION BEAMS FROM A PLASMA FOCUS MODIFIED FOR LOW PRESSURE OPERATION

Chiow San Wong, Peter Choi, Wee Seong Leong and Jasbir Singh, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 41, 3943 (2002).

DEUTERON BEAM MEASUREMENTS OF A SMALL PLASMA FOCUS

(S.L. Yap, C.H. Lee, Y.W. Tan, H.S. Poh and C.S. Wong)

J. Fiz. Mal. 25, 19 (2004)

EFFECT OF X-RAY FROM A SMALL PLASMA FOCUS ON COLORLESS SYNTHETIC CORUNDUM

(R. Mongkolnavin, D. Ngamrungroj and C.S. Wong)

J. Fiz. Mal. 25, 87 (2004)

GENERATION OF DEUTERON BEAM FROM THE PLASMA FOCUS

(C.S. Wong and S.L. Yap)

Solid State Phenomena, 107, 151 (2005)

EFFICIENCY OF ENERGY TRANSFERRED IN A SMALL PLASMA FOCUS

DEVICE

(Dusit Ngamrungroj, Rattachat Mongkolnavin and Chiow San Wong )

Solid State Phenomena 107, 95 (2005)

CORRELATION BETWEEN THE CURRENT SHEATH DYNAMICS IN THE AXIAL ACCELERATION PHASE OF THE PLASMA FOCUS AND ITS ION BEAM GENERATION

(C.H. Lee, D. Ngamrungroj, C.S. Wong, R. Mongkolnavin, Y.K. Low, J. Singh, S.L. Yap)

J. Sci. Technol.in the Tropics 1, 49 (2005).

OBSERVATION OF TWO PHASES OF NEUTRON EMISSION IN A LOW ENERGY PLASMA FOCUS

(S.L. Yap, C.S. Wong, P. Choi, C. Dumitrescu and S.P. Moo)

Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 44, 8125 (2005).

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