Impedance-match experiments using laser-driven shock waves
Abstract
A high-energy laser pulse has been used to drive a shock wave into a foil target. Pressures of 0.3 TPa in aluminum and 0.6 TPa in a gold overlay were inferred from simultaneous measurements of the shock velocities. The techniques will be useful in determining high-pressure equation-of-state parameters for a wide variety of materials.
- Publication:
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Applied Physics Letters
- Pub Date:
- November 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.90961
- Bibcode:
- 1979ApPhL..35..761V
- Keywords:
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- 62.50.+p;
- 43.40.+s;
- 46.30.My;
- High-pressure and shock wave effects in solids and liquids;
- Structural acoustics and vibration