Intense clean characteristic flash x-ray irradiation from an evaporating molybdenum diode

Michiaki Sagae; Eiichi Sato; Etsuro Tanaka; Hidezo Mori; Toshiaki Kawai; Takashi Inoue; Akira Ogawa; Shigehiro Sato; Kazuyoshi Takayama; Jun Onagawa; Hideaki Ido

doi:10.1117/1.2541668

1 February 2007 Intense clean characteristic flash x-ray irradiation from an evaporating molybdenum diode

Michiaki Sagae, Eiichi Sato, Etsuro Tanaka, Hidezo Mori, Toshiaki Kawai, Takashi Inoue, Akira Ogawa, Shigehiro Sato, Kazuyoshi Takayama, Jun Onagawa, Hideaki Ido

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 46, Issue 2, 026502 (February 2007). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2541668

Abstract

In a flash x-ray generator, a 150-nF condenser is charged up to 80 kV by a power supply, and flash x-rays are produced by the discharge. The x-ray tube is a demountable diode, and the turbomolecular pump evacuates air from the tube with a pressure of approximately 1 mPa. Since the electric circuit of the high-voltage pulse generator employs a cable transmission line, the high-voltage pulse generator produces twice the potential of the condenser charging voltage. Because bremsstrahlung rays are not emitted in the opposite direction of that of electron trajectory, clean molybdenum K-series characteristic x-rays can be produced without using a filter. When the charging voltage is increased, the K-series characteristic x-ray intensities of molybdenum increase. The K lines are clean and intense, and hardly any bremsstrahlung rays are detected. The x-ray pulse widths are approximately 100 ns, and the time-integrated x-ray intensity has a value of approximately 500 µGy per pulse at 1.0 m from the x-ray source, with a charging voltage of 80 kV.

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Michiaki Sagae, Eiichi Sato, Etsuro Tanaka, Hidezo Mori, Toshiaki Kawai, Takashi Inoue, Akira Ogawa, Shigehiro Sato, Kazuyoshi Takayama, Jun Onagawa, and Hideaki Ido "Intense clean characteristic flash x-ray irradiation from an evaporating molybdenum diode," Optical Engineering 46(2), 026502 (1 February 2007). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2541668

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