Microsecond and Sub-Microsecond Timescale Pulse High-Current Generators for Laboratory Studies of High Energy Density Matter

The study of the properties of matter at extreme conditions (>10 9 Pa, >10 4 K 0 ) is imperative for understanding phenomena where such states are reached in planetary astrophysics and confined fusion. To achieve such states of matter, what is often described as warm dense plasma, extremely high energy density deposition should be realized. One of the techniques used to explore matter under extreme conditions is the underwater electrical explosion of wire and wire arrays accompanied by the generation of strong shock waves.