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MATTER AND RADIATION AT EXTREMES
Volume 3, Issue 6, Pages 312-321Publisher
AIP PUBLISHING LLC
DOI: 10.1016/j.mre.2018.08.001
Keywords
Vapor-deposition; Direct-drive target; OMEGA; Target characterization; Solution-based microencapsulation
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- Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration [DE-NA0001944]
- University of Rochester
- New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
- agency of the U.S. Government
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Targets for low-adiabat direct-drive-implosion experiments on OMEGA must meet rigorous specifications and tight tolerances on the diameter, wall thickness, wall-thickness uniformity, and presence of surface features. Of these, restrictions on the size and number of defects (bumps and depressions) on the surface are the most challenging. The properties of targets that are made using vapor-deposition and solution-based microencapsulation techniques are reviewed. Targets were characterized using confocal microscopy, bright- and dark-field microscopy, atomic force microscopy, electron microscopy, and interferometry. Each technique has merits and limitations, and a combination of these techniques is necessary to adequately characterize a target. The main limitation with the glow-discharge polymerization (GDP) method for making targets is that it produces hundreds of domes with a lateral dimension of 0.7-2 mu m Polishing these targets reduces the size of some but not all domes, but it adds scratches and grooves to the surface. Solution-made polystyrene shells lack the dome features of GDP targets but have hundreds of submicrometer-size voids throughout the wall of the target; a few of these voids can be as large as similar to 12 mu m at the surface. (C) 2018 Science and Technology Information Center, China Academy of Engineering Physics. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V.
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