DIGEST OF TECHNICAL PAPERS

th11 IEEE International

Pulsed Power Conference

Hyatt Regency Baltimore

On the Inner Harbor

Baltimore, Maryland USAJune 29-July 2, 1997

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INFORMATIONSBIBLIOTHEK

Editors

Gerald CoopersteinNaval Research Laboratory

Conference Chairman

IhorVitkovitskyLogicon R&D Associates

Technical Program Chairman

In Cooperation With

IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society

Volume I

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume I

Sponsors IVCommittees VPreface

, VIErwin Marx Award VIIIPeter Haas Pulsed Power Award X

Paper Index Volume I XIIIPaper Index Volume II XXVI

Plenary Sessions - 1 - Commercial Applications of Pulsed Power 1

2- Major New Pulsed Power Systems 253- Erwin Marx Award Lecture 594 - Peter Haas Award Lecture 68

Oral Session 1 - Commercial Applications I 73

2 - High Power Microwaves 1 1273- Radiation Sources 1534 - Commercial Applications II 192

5- Electromagnetic and Electrothermal Launchers 231

6-Opening Switches 2617 - Gas, Plasma and Pseudospark Switches 2998- High Power Microwaves II 3409 - Hydrodynamic and High Magnetic Field Applications 36110- Solid State Switches and Photoconducting Switches 39011 - Diagnostics and Computational Techniques 43012 - Pulsed Inertial and MHD Generators 48013- Insulation And Dielectric Breakdown 51914- Magnetic Flux Compression Generators 56615- High Current Accelerators and Components 59116 - Particle Beams and Lasers 64217 - Large Pulsed Power Systems 673

Poster Session 1 - High Power Microwaves; Radiation Sources 724

Author Index

Volume II

Table of Contents Ill

Paper Index Volume I V

Paper Index Volume II XVIII

Poster Session I - Continued - Gas, Vacuum, Pseudospark, Plasma, Solid State,Photoconductive, and Magnetic Switches; Late Papers , 857

Poster Session 2 - Commercial Applications; Electromagnetic & Electrothermal Launchers;

Opening Switches; Computational Techniques & Diagnostics;Particle Beams & Lasers 1042

Poster Session 3 - Hydrodynamic Exper,; Explosive Pulsed Power; High Magnetic Field

Gen.; Networks & Gen.; Pulsed Inertial & MHD Gen.; Components &High Current Accel.; Insul. & Dielectric Breakdown; Late Papers 1369

Author Index 1725

Registrant List 1731

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Paper Index - Volume I

Plenary Session 1

COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS OF PULSED POWER

Charles Stallings, Chairperson

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF HIGH VOLTAGE PULSED POWER TECHNIQUES:DEVELOPMENTS AT FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM KARLSRUHE (FZK), H. Bluhm, R. Bohme, W.

Frey, H. Giese, P. Hoppe, G. KefJIer, G. MQller, N. Neubert, D. Rusch, C. Schultheifi, G.

Schumacher, M. SOhner, H. Straiiner, D. Strauti, W. Vath, F. Zimmermann, ForschungszentmmKarlsruhe, Germany, V. Engelko, D.V. Efremov Inst. ofElectr. Appar., Russia] A. Dulson, V.I. Kurets,Tomsk Polytech Univ., Russia 1

PROGRESS OF PULSED POWER COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS IN JAPAN, Kiyoshi Yatsui,Nagaoka Univ. of Tech., Japan , ,

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Plenary Session 2

MAJOR NEW PULSED POWER SYSTEMS

Hugh Klrbie, Chairperson

NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND APPLICATIONS OF INTENSE PULSED RADIATION SOURCES AT

SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES, Don Cook, Sandla National Laboratories, USA 25

OVERVIEW OF THE ATLAS PROJECT, R.J. Trainor, W.M. Parsons, E.O. Ballard, R.R. Bartsch,J.F. Benage, G.A. Bennett, R.L Bowers, D.W. Bowman, J.H. Brownell, J.C. Cochrane, H.A. Davis,C.A. Ekdahl, R.D. Fulton, R.F. Gribble, J.R. Grlego, J. Guzik, M.E. Jones, W.B. Hinckley, K.W.

Hosack, R.J. Kaslk, R. Kelnigs, H. Lee, E.A. Lopez, I.R. Lindemuth, M.D. Monroe, R.W. Moses, D.

Oro, S.A. Ney, D.D. Pierce, D. Platts, W.A. Reass, R.E, Reinovsky, G. Rodriguez, H.R. Salazar,G.M. Sandoval, D.W. Scudder, M. Sheppard, J.S. Shlachter, A. Taylor, M.C. Thompson, G.A.

Valdez, R.G. Watt, G.A. Wurden, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA 37

SYRINX TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRAM, DEVELOPMENTS AND RECENT RESULTS, G.

Avrillaud, F. Bayol, D. Huet, A, Foussat, A. Johan, F. Kovacs, F. Lassalle, J.F. Leon, J. Mechenin,

P. Monjaux, R. Vezinet, Centre d'Etudes de Gramat, France; L. Aranchuck, P. Auvray, R. Benatar, A.

Chuvatin, B. Etlicher, C. Rouille, Ecole Polytechnique, France; B. Cassany, L. Courtois, L. Frescaline,

ITHPP, France,

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Plenary Session 3

ERWIN MARX AWARD LECTURE

Kenneth Preetwlch, Chairperson

MULTI GAP SPARK SWITCHES, Boris M. Kovalchuk, High Current Electr. Inst, Russia 59

Plenary Session 4

PETER HAAS AWARD LECTURE

Peter Turchl, Chairperson

PETER HAAS AWARD DINNER SPEECH, William L. Baker, Phillips Laboratory, USA 68

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Oral Session 1

COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS I

William Moeny, Chairperson

THE EFFECT OF PULSED ELECTRICAL FIELDS ON BIOLOGICAL CELLS, Karl H, Schoenbach,Amr Abou-Ghazala, Terry Vithoulkas, Raymond W. Alden, Robert Turner, Old Dominion Univ., USA;

Stephen Beebe, Eastern Virginia Medical School, USA 73

PULSED POWER FOR ADVANCED WASTE WATER REMEDIATION, V.M. Bystritekil, T.K, Wood,Y. Yankelevich, S. Chauhan, D. Yee, F. Wessei, Univ. of California at Irvine, USA 79

APPLICATION OF PULSED POWER TECHNOLOGY IN NON-THERMAL FOOD PROCESSING

AND SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION, Xlangxiao Qiu, Laura Tuhela, Q. Howard Zhang, Ohio State Univ..USA 85

REMOVAL OF NOx FROM DIESEL GENERATOR EXHAUST BY PULSED ELECTRON BEAMS,B.M. Penetrante, Lawrence Uvermore National Laboratory, USA 91

EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS COMPARING PULSED CORONA AND DIELECTRIC BARRIER

DISCHARGES FOR POLLUTION CONTROL, R. Korzekwa, L Rosocha, Z. Falkenstein, Los

Alamos National Laboratory, USA ,.,..97

PULSED CORONA FOR GAS AND WATER TREATMENT, E.J.M. van Heesch, H.W.M. Smuldera,S.V.B. van Paasen, P.P.M. Blom, F.M. van Gompel, AJ.P.M. Staring, KJ. Ptasinski, Eindhoven Univ.

of Tech., Netherlands 103

STREAMER DISCHARGES BY PULSED POWER ON A SPIRAL TRANSMISSION LINE, Hidenori

Akiyama.Yasuhiko Nishihashi, Shunsuke Tsukamoto.Tsuyoshi Sueda, Sunao Katsukl, Kumamoto

Univ., Japan; Marion Hagler, James C. Dickens, Texas Tech Univ., USA; Nobutada Inoue, KyushuElectric Power Co., Japan 109

HIGH ENERGY ELECTRON BEAM JOINING OF CERAMIC COMPONENTS, B.N. Turman, S.Jill

Glass, John A. Halbleib, Thomas E. Voth, Frank P. Gerstle, Pin Yang, Bonnie McKenzie, Sandia

National Laboratories, USA; Jerry R.Clifford, Titan Advanced Technologies Group, USA 115

Oral Session 2

HIGH POWER MICROWAVES I

Steve Calico, Chairperson

SUPER-POWER GENERATOR OF MM-WAVES DRIVEN BY MICROSECOND SHEET BEAM,M.A. Agafonov, A.V. Arzhannikov, V.G. Ivanenko, P.V. Kalinin, SA Kuznetsov, S.L Sinitsky, Budker

Inst, of Nuclear Phys., Russia; N.S. Ginzburg, N.Yu, Peskov, Inst, ofApplied Phys., Russia 121

INVITED - PULSE SHORTENING IN HIGH POWER MICROWAVE SOURCES, James Benford,Microwave Sciences Inc., USA; Gregory Benford, Univ. of California at Irvine, USA.,.., 127

WINDOW AND CAVITY BREAKDOWN CAUSED BY HIGH POWER MICROWAVES, A. Neuber,J. Dickens, D. Hemmert, H. Krompholz, L,L Hatfield, M. Kristiansen, Texas Tech Univ., USA 135

X-BAND 3 GW RELATIVISTIC BWO BASED ON HIGH CURRENT REPETITIVELY-PULSED

ACCELERATOR, A.V. Gunin, A.I. Klimov, S.D. Korovin, I.K. Kurkan, I.V. Pegel, S.D. Polevin, A.M.

Roitman, V.V. Rostov, A.S. Stepchenko, E.M. Totmeninov, Inst, of High Current Electr., Russia 141

COMPACT 1MV, 10 Hz PULSER, J. Hammon, S.K. Lam, D. Drury, M. Ingram, Primex PhysicsInternational Co., USA 147

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Oral Session 3

RADIATION SOURCES

Ken Ware, Chairperson

INVITED - IMPROVED RADIATION OUTPUT FROM A DECADE MODULE, B.V. Weber, P.F.

Ottinger, D.V. Rose, R.J. Commisso, Naval Research Laboratory, USA; J.R. Thompson, J.E. Rauch,J.R. Goyer, Maxwell Technologies, USA; D. Kortbawi, Primex Physics International Co., USA; M.A.

Babineau, Sverdrup Tech., USA 153

CIRCUIT-CODE MODELING OF THE PBFA Z FOR Z-PINCH EXPERIMENTS, K.W. Struve,Mission Research Corp., USA; T.H. Martin, R.B. Spielman, W.A, Stygar, Sandia National Laboratories,USA; P.A. Corcoran, J.W. Douglas, Pulse Sciences Inc., USA 162

DESIGN CRITERIA FOR THEZ VACUUM INSULATOR STACK, I.D. Smith, P.A. Corcoran, Pulse

Sciences Inc., USA; W.A. Stygar, T.H. Martin, R.B. Spielman, Sandia National Laboratories, USA; R.W.

Shoup, Defense Special Weapons Agency, USA 168

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF VARIABLE MASS LINER FOR SOFT X-RAY GENERATION, A.M.

Bujko, V.K. Chernyshev, S.F. Garanin, Y.N, Gorbachev, V.A. Demidov, G.G. tvanova, V.N.

Kostyukov, S.D. Kuznetsov, A.I. Kuzyaev, A.B. Mezhevov, V.N. Mokhov, A.A, Petrukhin, V.N.

Sofronov, A.I. Startsev, V.B. Yakubov, All-Russian Scl. Inst, of Exp. Phys., Russia; Brodie G. Anderson,Carl A. Ekdahl, John L. Kammerdiener, Irvin R. Lindemuth, Robert E. Reinovsky, Patrick J.

Rodriguez, Linn R. Veeser, Stephen M. Younger, William D. Zerwekh, David A. Poling, Ronald C.

Kirkpatrick, Los Alamos NationalLaboratory, USA; Thadeus J. Englert, Gerald F. Kiuttu, PhillipsLaboratory, USA 177

Oral Session 4

COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS II

Regan Stinnett, Chairperson

SURFACE TREATMENT AND ALLOYING WITH HIGH-POWER ION BEAMS TO IMPROVEPROPERTIES IN AL-, FE-, AND TI-BASED METALS, T.J. Renk, R.G. Buchheit, N.R. Sorensen, D.

Cowell Senft, Sandia National Laboratories, USA; M.O. Thompson, Cornell Univ., USA; K.S. Grabowski,Naval Research Laboratory, USA 192

PULSE GENERATOR FOR ION IMPLANTATION, Paul R. Johannessen, William F. Roland,

Megapulse, USA 198

PULSED POWER TECHNOLOGIES FOR COMMERCIAL MATERIAL REDUCTION AND

CRUSHING APPLICATIONS, J. Hofmann, Th.H.G.G. Weise, UN Forschungs, Germany 203

WIRE INDUCED FLASHOVER AS A SOURCE OF SHOCK WAVES FOR DESTRUCTION OF

SOLID MATERIALS, I.V. Lisitsyn, T. Muraki, H. Akiyama, Kumamoto Univ., Japan 208

SYNTHESIS OF NANOSIZE POWDERS BY PULSEDWIRE DISCHARGE, Weihua Jiang, KiyoshiYatsul, Nagaoka Univ. of Tech., Japan 214

ELECTROPULSE TECHNOLOGY OF MATERIAL DESTRUCTION AND BORING, S. Boev, V.

Vajov, B. Levchenko, D. Jgun, V. Muratov, S. Peltsman, A. Adam, K. Uemura, Tomsk Polytech Univ.,

Russia •220

INVITED - DIAMONDS PRODUCED BY ELECTRIC WIRE EXPLOSION, V.E. Fortov, V.N.

Korobenko, A.D. Rakhel, A.I. Savvatimski, High Energy Density Res. Center, Russia 226

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Oral Session 5

ELECTROMAGNETIC AND ELECTROTHERMAL LAUNCHERS

Ian McNab, Chairperson

INVITED - A GENERALIZED GOODNESS FUNCTION AND QUALfTY FACTORS OF ADVANCED

ELECTRICAL MACHINES FOR HYPERVELOCITY ACCELERATORS, M.D. Driga, Univ. of Texas

at Austin, USA 231

INVITED - DESIGN AND TESTING OF A 5MW BATTERY-BASED INDUCTIVE POWER SUPPLY,

A. Pokryvailo, M. Kanter, Z. Kaplan, V. Maron, SOREQNRC, Israel 241

SETUP AND PERFORMANCE OF A CAPACITIVE 300 kJ PULSED POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM

FOR ETC-GUN INVESTIGATIONS, Th.H.G.G. Weise, H.G. Wisken, TZN Forschungs, Germany, A.

Berg, FMV Defense Material Admin., Sweden 2S0

MODIFICATION OF RAILGUN PLASMA CHARACTERISTICS BY SPOUT HOLES ON THE

BORE, S. Katsukl, T. Sueda, H. Akiyama, Kumamoto Univ., Japan 2S6

Oral Session 6

OPENING SWITCHES

Richard Gulllckson, Chairperson

INVITED - A COMPOSITE POS: FIRST PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE RESULTS FROM GIT-12, AS.

Chuvatin, Ecole Polytechntque, France; A.A. Kim, V.A. Kokshenev, B.M. Kovalchuk, N.E. Kurmaev,S.V. Loginov, F.I. Fursov, Inst, of High Current Electronics, Russia 261

CONDUCTION TIME/CURRENT LIMITATION ON THE DEFENSE SPECIAL WEAPONS AGENCYDECADE MODULE 1, John R. Thompson, John E. Rauch, Maxwell Technologies, USA; John R.

Goyer, David Kortbawl, Primex Physics International Co., USA; Paul F. Ottinger, Bruce V. Weber, Naval

Research Laboratory, USA 269

EFFICIENCY LIMITATIONS FOR THE PLASMA OPENING SWITCH OPERATION, Ya.E. Krasik,Technion, Israel; V,M. Bystritskii, Univ. of California at Irvine, USA 275

NEW REPETITIVE POS ELECTRON ACCELERATOR FOR OPEN AIR ELECTRON BEAM

INJECTION, Georgi I. Dolgachev, Mikhail S. Nitishinsky, Andrey G. Ushakov, RRC Kurchatov Inst,Russia 281

EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS OBTAINED WITH THE 1 MA RESONANT SERIESCOUNTERPULSE OPENING SWITCH SYSTEM, DEVELOPED AT TNO, Edwin van Dijk, Delft

Univ. of Tech., Netherlands,

287

DYNAMIC INTERACTIONS BETWEEN AVACUUM ARC AND CIRCUIT-BREAKERWALLS,Stephen William Rowe, Michel Barrault, Schneider Electric, France

,293

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Oral Session 7

GAS, PLASMA AND PSEUDOSPARK SWITCHES

Martin Gundersen, Chairperson

INVITED - SEALED-OFF PSEUDOSPARK SWITCHES FOR PULSED POWER, K. Frank, C.

Bickes, U. Ernst, M. Iberler, J. Meier, U. Prucker, M. Schlaug, J. Schwab, J. Urban, D.H.H.

Hoffmann, Univ. ofEriangen-Nuremberg, Germany..., 299

HIGH-POWER LOW-PRESSURE GAS DISCHARGE SWITCHES WITH INTERNAL MAGNETIC

FIELD GENERATION, Werner Hartmann, Michael Romheld, Jorg Teichmann, Siemens AG

Corporate Tech., Gennany 308

INVESTIGATIONS OF A RADIAL MULTICHANNEL PSEUDOSPARK SWITCH FOR CURRENTS

HIGHER THAN HUNDRED KA, K. Bergmann, J. Kiefer, W. Neff, R. Lebert, Lehrstuhl fQr

Lasertechnik, Germany 313

PERFORMANCE OF A HIGH CURRENT, LOW PRESSURE HYDROGEN RADIAL

PSEUDOSPARK SWITCH, W.R. Cravey, G.L. Devlin, Tetra Corp., USA; M.E. Savage, W.W.

Simpson, Sandia National Laboratories, USA 318

LOW-INTENSITY LASER-TRIGGERING OF RAIL-GAPS WITH MAGNESIUM-AEROSOL

SWITCHING-GASES, W. Frey, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Gennany 322

A LOW-PROFILE HIGH-VOLTAGE COMPACT GAS SWITCH, DA. Goerz, M.J. Wilson, R.D.

Speer, Lawrence Uvermore National Laboratory, USA 328

A NEW GAS DISCHARGE SWITCH FOR DISCHARGING HIGH ENERGY CAPACITOR BANKS,C.A. Pirrie, C.A. Roberts, EEV, Ltd., UK ,

334

Oral Session 8

HIGH POWER MICROWAVES II

Malcolm Buttram, Chairperson

CROSSED-FIELD SECONDARY EMISSION ELECTRON SOURCE, Y.M. Saveliev, W. Sibbett,

Univ. of St. Andrews, UK; DM. Parkes, DERA, St. Andrews Road, UK 340

INVITED - HIGH POWER, PULSED SOLITON GENERATION AT RADIO AND MICROWAVE

FREQUENCIES, M.P. Brown, P.W. Smith, Univ. of Oxford, UK 346

81-7M-01-A TWO-BEAMS ACCELERATOR, LG. Shen, C.L. Li, Y.G. Liu, National Univ. ofDefense

Tech„PRC355

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Oral Session 9

HYDRODYNAMIC AND HIGH MAGNETIC FIELD APPLICATIONS

Peter Turchi, Chairperson

PEGASUS II EXPERIMENTS AND PLANS FOR THE ATLAS PULSED POWER FACILITY, J.S.

Shlachter, P.J. Adams, W.L Atchison, R.R. Bartsch, J.F. Benage, J.C. Cochrane, W.L Coulter,

C.A. Ekdahl, R.J. Faehl, R.D. Fulton, J. Guzik, D. Holtkamp, M.E. Jones, R. Keinigs, N.S,P.King,GAKyrala, H. Lee, I.R. Lindemuth, D.V. Morgan, R.W. Moses, A.W. Obst, H. Oona, D. Oro, W.M.

Parsons, D. Platts, R.E. Reinovsky, G. Rodriguez, D.W. Scudder, M. Sheppard, D.S. Sorenson, J.L.

Stokes, A. Taylor, R.J. Trainor, R.G. Watt, G.A. Wurden, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA 361

MEGABAR LINER EXPERIMENTS ON PEGASUS II, H. Lee, R.R. Bartsch, R.L Bowers, W.

Anderson, W.L. Atchison, R.E. Chrien, J. Cochrane, H. Oona, D. Platts, M. Rich, W.R. Shanahan,

D.W. Scudder, J. Stokes, L. Veeser, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA; W. Broste, Bechtel Nevada,

USA 366

EVALUATION OF MAGNETO RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR MODE GROWTH USING COMPARISONS

OF 2D CALCULATIONS WITH RADIOGRAPHIC DATA, W.L. Atchison, R.J. Faehl, R.E.

Reinovsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA 372

HEL-1: A DEMG BASED DEMONSTRATION OF SOLID LINER IMPLOSIONS AT 100 MA, R.E.

Reinovsky, B.G. Anderson, D.A. Clark, C.A. Ekdahl, R.J. Faehl, J.H. Goforth, I.R. Lindemuth, T.L.

Petersen, P.T. Sheehey, L.J. Tabaka, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA; V.K. Chernyshev, V.N.

Mokhov, V.N. Buzin, O.M. Byrenkov, A.M. Bujko, V.V. Vakhruchev, S.F. Garanin, B.E. Grinevich,Y.N. Gorbachev, E.V. Gubkov, V.A. Demidov, V.I. Dudoladov, V.V. Zmushko, A.I. Kuzyaev, A.I.

Kucherov, B.M. Lovyagin, Y.I. Matsev, P.N. Nizovtsev, A.A. Petrukhin, A.I. Pishurov, S.S. Sokolov,

V.P. Solovjov, A.I. Startsev, V.B. Yakubov, All-Russian Scl. Inst, of Exp. Phys., Russia 378

ISENTROPIC COMPRESSION OF ARGON, LR. Veeser, C.A. Ekdahl, H. Oona, P.J. Rodriguez,J.C. Solem, S.M. Younger, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA; W. Lewis, W.D, Turley, Bechtel

Nevada, USA; A.I. Bykov, V.V. Aseeva, G.V. Boriskov, M.l. Dolotenko, N.I. Egorov, N.P.

Kolokol'chikov, Y.P. Kuropatkin, V.D. Mironenko, V.N. Pavlov, A.A. Volkov, All-Russian Fed. Nuc.

Center, Russia 384

Oral Session 10

SOLID STATE SWITCHES AND PHOTOCONDUCTING SWITCHES

Dave Singh, Chairperson

PFNs SWITCHED WITH STACKED SCRs AT 20 kV, 500 J, AND 100 Hz REP-RATE, G. Renz, F.

Holzschuh, E. Zeyfang, Institut fOr Technische Physik, Germany 390

INVITED - HIGH PEAK CURRENT BURST REPETITIVE OPERATION OF A 126MM THYRISTOR,T.F. Podlesak, H. Singh, Army Research Laboratory, USA; S. Schneider, Consultant, USA; S. Behr,Vitronics, inc., USA

,396

INVITED - LONGEVITY OF OPTICALLY ACTIVATED, HIGH GAIN GaAs PHOTOCONDUCTIVESEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES, G.M. Loubriel, F.J. Zutavem, A. Mar, M.W. O'Malley, W.D.

Helgeson, D.J. Brown, H.P. Hjalmarson, A.G. Baca, Sandia National Laboratories, USA 405

EVALUATION OF A RUSSIAN SOS DIODE FOR USE IN A COMPACT MODULATOR SYSTEM,J. Dickens, M. Kristiansen, M. Giesselmann, J.G. Kim, Texas Tech Univ., USA 414

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HIGH REPETITION FREQUENCY POWER NANOSECOND PULSE GENERATION, A.F. Kardo-

Sysoev, S.V. Zazulin, V.M. Efanov, Y.S. Lelikov, loffe Phisico-Tech. Inst, Russia; A.V. Krikienko, Pulse

Systems Group, Russia 420

MEGA AND GIGAWATTS-RANGES, REPETITIVE MODE SEMICONDUCTOR CLOSING AND

OPENING SWITCHES, I. Grekhov, loffe Phisico-Tech. Inst, Russia 425

Oral Session 11

DIAGNOSTICS AND COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES

John Gahl, Chairperson

LLNL FLASH X-RAY RADIOGRAPHY MACHINE (FXR) DOUBLE-PULSE UPGRADE

DIAGNOSTICS, Mike Ong, Carlos Avalle, Roger Richardson, Jan Zentler, Lawrence Livermore

National Laboratory, USA.... ,430

DIAGNOSTICS OF PULSED ION BEAMS AND ABLATION PLUMES EXHAUSTED FROM

TARGETS IRRADIATED BY ION BEAMS, K. Kasuya, D. Ido, H. Okayama, T. Ebine, M. Funatsu,

M. Watanabe, K. Yasuike, S. Miyamoto, Tokyo Inst, of Tech., Japan 436

DEVELOPMENT OF AN HIGH PRESSURE DIAGNOSTIC BASED ON OPTICAL RAMAN

BACK8CATTER MEASUREMENTS IN DIAMOND, G, Rodriguez, J.P. Roberts, A.J. Taylor, Los

Alamos National Laboratory, USA; CM. Gallegos, Bechtel Nevada, USA 442

PERFORMANCE OF THE MULTI-PULSE X-RAY IMAGING SYSTEM FOR THE PULSED

POWER HYDRODYNAMIC EXPERIMENTS AT LANL, A.W. Obst, D. Fulton, N.S.P. King, D.

Morgan, D. Oro, D. Platts, D.S. Sorenson, M. Stelts, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA 448

SHADOWGRAPH ILLUMINATION TECHNIQUES FOR FRAMING CAMERAS, R.M. Malone, R.L

Flurer, B.C. Frogget, Bechtel Nevada, USA; D.S. Sorenson, V.H. Holmes, A.W. Obst, Los Alamos

National Laboratory, USA454

IVORY PIC SIMULATIONS OF THE Z INSULATOR STACK, M.A. Mostrom, T.P. Hughes, R.E.

Clark, Mission Research Corp., USA; W.A. Stygar, R.B. Spielman, Sand/a National Laboratories, USA 460

PBFA-Z VACUUM SECTION DESIGN USING TLCODE SIMULATIONS, P.A. Corcoran, J.W.

Douglas, I.D. Smith, P.W. Spence, Pulse Sciences Inc., USA; W.A. Stygar, K.W, Struve, T.H. Martin,

R.B, Spielman, H.C, Ives, Sandia National Laboratories, USA 466

IMPROVEMENTS TO THE INTEGRATED TIGER SERIES MONTE CARLO RADIATION

TRANSPORT CODES, L. Montgomery Smith, Reuben D. Hochstedler, The Univ. of Tennessee Space

Inst, USA474

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Oral Session 12

PULSED INERTIAL AND MHD GENERATORS

Roger White, Chairperson

INVITED - HIGH PERFORMANCE PULSED POWER GENERATION SYSTEM USING A DISK

MHD GENERATOR DRIVEN BY NPG SYSTEM, Nob. Harada, Nagaoka Univ. of Tech., Japan 480

INVITED - FAST PRIMARY ENERGY STORAGE BASED ON LINEAR TRANSFORMER

SCHEME, A.N. Bastrikov, A.A. Kim, B.M. Kovalchuk, E.V. Kumpjak, S.V. Loginov, V.I. Manylov,V.A. Visir, V.P. Yakovlev, High Current Electr. Inst, Russia; B. Etlicher, A. Chuvatin, L. Frescaline,Ecole Polytechnique, France; J.F. L6on, P. Monjaux, F. Kovacs, D. Huet, F. Bayol, Centre d'Etudes de

Gramat, France 489

DESIGN OF THE ATLAS 240 KV MARX MODULES, D.W. Bowman, G. Bennett, F. Biehl, J.

Cochrane, R. Gribble, J. Griego, R. Hicks, W. Hinckley, K. Hosack, R. Kasik, E. Lopez, B. Reass, H.

Salazar, G. Sandoval, D. Scudder, M.C. Thompson, W.M. Parsons, Los Alamos National Laboratory,

USA 498

PULSED MHD POWER: STATE-OF-THE-ART AND PROSPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT, Vladimir

A. Zeigarnlk, Victor A. Novikov, Victor Yu. Rickman, IVTAN, Russia 503

INVITED-THE MULTIMEGAJOULE CAPACITIVE ENERGY STORES FOR GENERATING

PULSES WITH LARGE CURRENT INTEGRAL, B.E. Fridman, Ph.G. Rutberg, Inst, ofProblems of

Electrophysics, Russia 509

Oral Session 13

INSULATION AND DIELECTRIC BREAKDOWN

Tom Naff, Chairperson

ENHANCEMENT OF THE ELECTRIC STRENGTH OF VACUUM INSULATION BY PULSED

ELECTRON BEAM TREATMENT, A.V. Batrakov, D.H. McDaniel, D.S. Nazarov, G.E. Ozur, S.A.

Popov, D.I. Proskurovsky, V.P. Rotshtein, Inst, of High Current Electronics, Russia 519

IMPROVING OF ELECTRICAL VACUUM INSULATION BETWEEN ELECTRO-GRADE

GRAPHITE ELECTRODES, S.A. Korenev, New Jersey Inst, of Tech., USA; A.V. Kalmukov, Joint Inst.

of Nuclear Res., Russia ,

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IMPROVED ELECTRICAL INSULATION OF VACUUM GAPS UTILIZING SIOx COATINGS, R.J.

Allen, K.H. Schoenbach, Old Dominion Univ., USA 531

VACUUM INSULATOR COATING DEVELOPMENT, I.S. Roth, P.S. Sincerny, Primex PhysicsInternational Co., USA; L Mandelcorn, M. Mendelsohn, D. Smith, Northrvp-Grumann Sol. & Tech. Cen.,

USA; T.G. Engel, Texas Tech Univ., USA; L. Schlitt, Leland Consulting Services, USA; CM. Cooke,Mass. Inst, of Tech., USA

,537

HIGH-POWER CRITICAL ELECTRON EMISSION FROM DIELECTRIC INDUCED BY INJECTION

OF HIGH-CURRENT-DENSITY ELECTRON BEAM, David Vaisburd, Sergey Tverdokhlebov,Timmure Tukhfatulln, High Current Electr. Inst, Russia 543

A SUBNANOSECOND HIGH VOLTAGE PULSER FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF DIELECTRIC

BREAKDOWN, J. Mankowski, J. Dickens, M. Kristiansen, Texas Tech Univ., USA S49

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INVESTIGATION OF A HIGH VOLTAGE VACUUM INSULATOR FOR THE DARHTACCELERATOR, W.R. Cravey, G.L. Devlin, C.S, Mayberry, Tetra Corp., USA; J.N. Downing, LosAlamos National Laboratory, USA 555

A NEW ELECTRODE UNIT FOR OPERATING IN LIQUIDS WITH HIGH SPECIFIC

CONDUCTIVITY, IT, Vovk, K.V. Dubovenko, Inst, of Pulse Res. & Eng., Ukraine 559

Oral Session 14

MAGNETIC FLUX COMPRESSION GENERATORS

Robert Reinovsky, Chairperson

INVITED - STUDY OF HIGH-ENERGY LINER COMPRESSION IN HEL-1 EXPERIMENT, V.K.

Chernyshev, V.N. Mokhov, V.N. Buzin, CM. Byrenkov, A.M. Bujko, V.V. Vakhruchev, S.F. Garanin,B.E. Grinevich, Y.N. Gorbachev, V.A. Demidov, V.I. Dudoladov, V.V. Zmushko, A.I. Kuzyaev, A.I.Kucherov, B.M. Lovyagin, Y.I. Matsev, P.N. Nizovtsev, A.A. Petrukhin, A.I. Pishurov, S.S. Sokolov,V.P. Solovjov, A.I. Startsev, V.B. Yakubov, All-Russian Sci. Inst, ofExp. Phys., Russia; B.G. Anderson,C.A. Ekdahl, J.H. Goforth, D. Clark, I.R. Lindemuth, R.E. Reinovsky, R.J. Faehl, S.M. Younger, Los

Alamos National Laboratory, USA 566

THE RANCHERO EXPLOSIVE PULSED POWER SYSTEM, James H. Goforth, Walter L. Atchison,Donald E. Bartram, C. Maxwell Fowler, Jeffrey D. Goettee, Dennis H. Herrera, James C. King,Emmanuel A. Lopez, Ernesto C Martinez, Henn Oona, Robert E. Reinovsky, Maurice G. Sheppard,John L. Stokes, Leonard J. Tabaka, David T. Torres, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA 573

EXPLOSIVE PULSED POWER EXPERIMENTS AT THE PHILLIPS LABORATORY, M. Lehr, G.

Baca, D. Chama, K. Hackett, T. Hussey, J. Kiuttu, D. Shiftier, PW///ps Laboratory, USA; J. Graham, W.

Sommars, Maxwell Technologies, USA; S. Coffey, T. Englert, Numerex, Inc., USA 579

A NEW CATEGORY OF HIGH-VOLTAGE PULSER BASED ON DYNAMIC PLASMA

TECHNIQUES, P.J. Turchi, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA 585

Oral Session 15

HIGH CURRENT ACCELERATORS AND COMPONENTS

William Rlx, Chairperson

DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE OF THE Z MAGNETICALLY-INSULATED TRANSMISSION

LINES, W.A. Stygar, R.B. Spielman, G.O. Allshouse, C. Deeney, D.R. Humphreys, H.C Ives, F.W.

Long, T.H. Martin, M.K. Matzen, D.H. McDaniel, C.W. Mendel.Jr., L.P. Mix, T.J. Nash, J.W. Poukey,J.J.Ramirez, T.W.L Sanford, J.F. Seamen, D.B. Seidel, J.W. Smith, D.M. Van DeValde, R.W.

Wavrik, Sandia National Laboratories, USA; P.A. Corcoran, John W. Douglas, I.D. Smith, Pulse

Sciences Inc., USA; Michael A. Mostrom, K.W. Struve, Thomas P. Hughes, Robert E. Clark, Mission

Research Corp., USA; R.W. Shoup, Defense Special Weapons Agency, USA; T.C Wagoner, T.L.

Gilllland, B.P. Peyton, Ktech Corp., USA 591

UPGRADES TO THE LLNL FLASH X-RAY INDUCTION LINEAR ACCELERATOR (FXR),

Raymond D. Scarpetti, John K. Boyd, Gregory G. Earley, Kenneth L. Griffin, Roderick G. Kerr,Ronald Kihara, Mike M. Ong, Jan-Mark Zentler, Norman L. Back, Lawrence Uvermore National

Laboratory, USA 597

CAPACITORS FOR HIGH POWER ELECTRONICS, W.J. Sarjeant, Univ. at Buffalo, SUNY, USA;

F.W. MacDougall, Maxwell Energy Products, USA 603

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THE FREQUENCY RESPONSE OF TRANSMISSION LINE (CABLE) TRANSFORMERS, P.W.

Smith, J.O, Rossi, Univ. of Oxford, UK 610

IMPROVEMENTS IN PULSE TRANSFORMER PERFORMANCE ACHIEVED USING PULSED

RESET CIRCUITRY, R.J. Adler, J. Stein, B. Ashcraft, R.J. Richter-Sand, North Star Research Corp.,USA 616

DESIGNS FOR A HIGH POWER SUPERCONDUCTING DELAY LINE, Yu Ju (Judy) Chen, G.

Caporaso, Lawrence Uvermore National Laboratory, USA 621

SYRINX PROJECT:FIRST RESULTS ON A 160 kJ, 700ns FAST MARX MODULE, F. Lassalle, G.

Avrillaud, F. Bayol, B. Cassany, A. Foussat, F. Kovacs, R. Lample, J.F. Leon, P. Monjaux, A. Morell,B. Roques, R. Vezinet, Centre d'Etudes de Gramat, France; B. Kovalchuk, A. Kim, High Current Electr.

Inst, Russia 627

ULTRAFAST PULSE-DISCHARGE AND RECHARGE CAPABILITIES OF THIN-METAL FILMBATTERY TECHNOLOGY, Robert F. Nelson, Richard Rinehart, Sean Varley, Bolder TechnologiesCorp., USA 636

Oral Session 16

PARTICLE BEAMS AND LASERS

Robert DeWItt, Chairperson

INVITED - INDUCTIVE VOLTAGE ADDER (IVA) FOR SUBMILLJMETER RADIUS ELECTRON

BEAM, M.G. Mazarakis, J.W. Poukey, J.E. Maenchen, D.C. Rovang, P.R. Menge, J.S. Lash, D.L.

Smith, D.L. Johnson, J.A. Halbleib, S.R. Cordova, K. Mikkelson, J. Gustwiller, W.A. Stygar, Sandia

National Laboratories, USA; D.R. Welch, Mission Research Corp., USA; I.Smith, P. Corcoran, Pulse

Sciences Inc., USA 642

BEHAVIORS OF EXCITATION DISCHARGE ON EXCIMER LASER IN NON-UNIFORM GASDENSITY DISTRIBUTION, Go Imada, Kiyoshi Yatsui.Yasuo Sato, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Wataru

Masuda, Nagaoka Univ. of Tech., Japan 651

OPERATION OF TWO COPPER VAPOR LASERS BYA SINGLE MAGNETIC MODULATOR, Nan

Druckmann, Israel Smilanski, NCRN, Israel 657

SUBNANOSECOND HIGH-DENSITY CURRENT INTERRUPTION IN SOS DIODES, S.K. Lyubutin,G.A. Mesyats, S.N. Rukin, B.G. Slovikovskii, Inst, of Electrophysics, Russia 663

A NEW PRINCIPLE OF ACCELERATION OF HIGH POWER PULSES OF THE QUASINEUTRALPLASMAS AND CHARGED PARTICLES, Victor V. Kulish, Sumy State Univ., Ukraine; Peter B. Kosel,Univ. of Cincinnati, USA

, 667

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Oral Session 17

LARGE PULSED POWER SYSTEMS

Robert Commlsso, Chairperson

AN OVERVIEW OF THE ATLAS PULSED-POWER SYSTEMS, W.M. Parsons, C.C. Baldwin, E.O.

Ballard, R.R. Bartsch, J.F. Benage, G.A. Bennett, D.W. Bowman, J.C Cochrane, J. Creager,HADavis, CAEkdahl, R.F. Gribble, J.R. Griego, W.B. Hinckley, K.W. Hosack, R.J. Kasik, R.

Keinigs, H.J. Kimerly, E.A. Lopez, A. Marquez, M.D. Monroe, S.A. Ney, D.D. Pierce, D. Platts, W.A.

Reass, H.R. Salazar, G.M. Sandoval, D.W. Scudder, J.S. Shlachter, M.C Thompson, R.J. Trainor,G.A. Valdez, R.G. Watt, G.A. Wurden, F.J. Wysocki, S.M. Younger, Los Alamos National Laboratory,USA 673

SYRINX PROJECT : DESIGN OF THE GSI, A 640 kJ INDUCTIVE ENERGY STORAGE

GENERATOR, G. Avriilaud, F. Lassalle, F. Bayol, A. Foussat, F. Kovacs, R. Lample, J.F. Leon, J.

Mechenln, P. Monjaux, P. Morell, B. Roques, R. Vezinet, Centre d'Etudesde Gramat, France; B.

Kovalchuk, A. Kim, High Current Electr. Inst., Russia; B. Cassany, L. Frescaline, ITHPP, France 679

SYRINX PROJECT : FIRST RESULTS WITH A 640 kJ LTD ACCELERATOR, Ph. Monjaux, D.

Huet, J.F. Leon, F, Kovacs, Centre d'Etudes de Gramat, France; B. Kovalchuck, A. Kim, High Current

Electr. Inst, Russia 687

INVITED - DECADE QUAD DESIGN AND TESTING STATUS, P. Sincerny, K. Childers, D.

Kortbawi, I. Roth, C Stallings, J. Riordan, B. Hoffman, Prlmex Physics International Co., USA; L.

Schlitt, Leland Consulting Services, USA; C Myers, Defense Special Weapons Agency, USA 698

PULSED POWER PERFORMANCE OF PBFAZ, R.B. Spielman, W.A. Stygar, J.F. Seamen, F.

Long, H. Ives, R. Garcia, T. Wagoner, Sandia National Laboratories, USA; K.W. Struve, M. Mostrom,

Mission Research Corp., USA; I. Smith, P. Spence, P. Corcoran, Pulse Sciences Inc., USA 709

INVITED - GIT 16: STATE OF PROJECT IN 1995-1997, B.M. Kovalchuk, V.A. Kokshenev, A.A.

Kim, N.E. Kurmaev, S.V. Loginov, F.I. Fursov, High Current Electr. Inst, Russia 715

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Poster Session 1

HIGH POWER MICROWAVES (p724)RADIATION SOURCES (p7fM$)

PULSE TRANSFORMER R&D FOR NLC KLYSTRON PULSE MODULATOR, M. Akemoto, S.

Gold, A. Krasnykh, R. Koontz, Stanford Univ., USA 724

HIGH-POWER ULTRAWIDEBAND ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION GENERATOR, Yu.A.

Andreev, Yu.l. Buyanov, A.M. Efremov, V.I. Koshelev, B.M. Kovalchuk, K.N. Sukhushin, V.A. Vizir,V.B. Zorin, High Current Electr. Inst, Russia 730

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF EFFICIENT 1.5 GHZ VIRCATOR, S.D. Korovin, IV. Pegei, S.D.

Polevin, High Current Electr. Inst, Russia; V.P. Tarakanov, High Temperature Inst., Russia 736

IMPLEMENTATION OF A FREQUENCY-AGILE, HIGH POWER BACKWARD WAVE

OSCILLATOR, E. Schamiloglu, C.T. Abdallah, G.T. Park, V.S. Souvalian, Univ. ofNew Mexico,

USA 742

A CATHODE MOUNTED PLASMA PREFILL SOURCE FOR HIGH POWER MICROWAVE

EXPERIMENTS, C Grabowski, J.M. Gahl, E. Schamiloglu, Univ. ofNew Mexico, USA 747

AN ULTRAWIDEBAND PHOTONIC CRYSTAL ANTENNA, K. Agi, M. Mojahedi, K.J. Malloy, E.

Schamiloglu, Univ. of New Mexico, USA 753

DIODE POLARITY EXPERIMENTS ON A COAXIAL VIRCATOR, Kevin Wooiverton, M.

Kristiansen, L.L. Hatfield, Texas Tech Univ., USA 759

POWERFUL ELECTRON ACCELERATOR "COVCHEG"; STATUS, PARAMETERS AND

PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS, A.L. Babkin, V.I. Chelpanov, A.E. Dubinov, E.E. Dubinov, A.A.

Hizhnyakov, I.V. Konovalov, V.G. Komilov, V.D. Selemir, V.S. Zhdanov, Russian Fed. Nuclear Center,

Russia 765

ELECTRON BEAM BEHAVIOR INVESTIGATION IN VIRTUAL CATHODE REGION, B.V

Alyokhin, V.V. Voronin, S.L.Voronov, O.I. Kovalenko, S.S. Pavlov, Russian Fed. Nuclear Center,

Russia ,770

DOUBLE-SIDED RELATIVISTIC MAGNETRON, A.V. Agafonov, E.G. Krastelev, P.N. Lebedev

Physical Inst, Russia 774

USING OF TWO-BEAMS CATHODE FOR FORMATION OF REB WITH SUPER8HORT FRONT

FOR HIGH-POWER MW GENERATORS, E.A, Galstjan, L.N. Kazanskly, MoscowRadiotechnical

Inst, Russia 780

THE STUDIES OF HPM FREQUENCY-LOCK TECHNIQUE OF VCO, Y.Z. Zhang, J.L Liu, C.L Li,G.Q. Chen, National Univ. of Defense Tech., PRC 786

SPACE-TIME DISTRIBUTION OF PULSED MAGNETIC FIELD WITHIN WAVEGUIDE-FLANGES

BOUNDARY, Y.Z. Zhang, W.Y. Li, C.L. Li, National Univ. of Defense Tech., PRC 791

FORMATION OF HIGH-POWER ELECTRON BEAM PLUSE, A.I. Kormiltein, V.S. Diyankov, All-

Russian Scl. & Res. Inst, of Tech. Phys., Russia 796

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PROGRESS IN THE INVESTIGATION OF MAGNETIZED PLASMA PARAMETERS IN THE

MAGNETIC COMPRESSURE SYSTEM (MAGO), V.K. Chernyshev, G.I. Volkov, A.N. Dyomin,Yu.N. Dolin, V.A. Ivanov, V.P. Korchagin, I.V. Morozov, S.V. Pak, A.N. Skobelev, All-Russian Sci. Inst,

of Exp. Phys., Russia 801

SYSTEM STUDY FORA POSSIBLE ATLAS RADIATION OPTION, RJ. Commisso, J.R, Boiler,Naval Research Laboratory, USA; J.F. Benage, Jr., Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA... 808

GAS-PUFF Z-PINCH PLASMAS DRIVEN BY INDUCTIVE ENERGY STORAGE PULSED POWER

GENERATOR, Koichi Murayama, Yatsushiro National College of Tech., Japan; Toshinori Shinkai,Sunao Katsuki, Hidenori Akiyama, Kumamoto Univ., Japan 815

GENERATION OF POWERFUL PULSES OFX-RADIATION IN IREB-DENSE GAS SYSTEM,V.V. Chorny, V.M. Dubina, O.V. Dunaevsky, A.O. Lomako, O.I. Frolov, Kharkiv State Univ., Ukraine 821

DETERMINING THE TEMPERATURE AND DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS FROM A Z-PINCH

RADIATION SOURCE, W. Matuska, H. Lee, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA 826

SIMULATION OF WIRE ARRAY IMPLOSIONS ON HIGH-CURRENT PULSED POWER

GENERATORS, T.A. Golub, N.A. Gondarenko, GNG Enterprises, Inc., USA 832

INVESTIGATION OF INITIAL STAGE FOAM LINER IMPLOSION ON ANGARA-5-1, E.V.

Grabovskli, A.V. Branitskli, M.V. Fedulov, I.N. Frolov, S.L. Nedoseev, G.M. Olelnik, V.P. Smirnov,

M.V.Zurin, Troitsk, Russia 837

PULSED MONOENERGY X-RAY SOURCE, Nianan Cheng, Inst, of Fluid Physics, PRC 843

SOFTX-RAY EMISSION FROM THE GAS-PUFF Z-PINCH PLASMA PRODUCED BYAN

INDUCTIVE PULSED POWER GENERATOR, K. Imasaka, S. Hara, Y. Kawauchi, K, Kawazoe, J.

Suehlro, M. Hara, Kyushu Univ., Japan.....845

REFLEX DIODE BREMSSTRAHLUNG IMPROVEMENT FOR SYRINX PROJECT., P. Bonnet, A.

Porte, M. Vie, G. Nouvel, J.P. Bedoch, S. Ritter, Centre d'Etudes de Gramat, France; M. Terrissol,

C.P.A.T., France851

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