ABSTRACT
The implosion of the liner concentrates the energy of an energy source such as a condenser bank, transferring a portion of it to the plasma target. A considerable attention has been given to the stability of foils driven by a magnetic field. The advantage of this liner assembly is that the gas one starts with is a stationary gas-fill of a conventional Z-pinch discharge-vessel and therefore, the snow plough proceeds in an undisturbed, uniform atmosphere. One of the best known and frequently studied plasma concentration processes is that of the dense-plasma focus. It is well known that at the time when a plasma column pinches and tries to interrupt the current which it carries, megagauss and megavolt fields are generated which produce powerful ion and electron beams. All the methods of plasma acceleration, particularly when considered as potential drivers for inertial confinement fusion, suffer from two major drawbacks.
