Sandia National Laboratories is investigating and developing high-dose, high-brightness flash radiographic sources. One of the diodes we are developing is the immersed-B z diode. This diode is a foil-less electronbeam diode with a long, thin, needle-like cathode inserted into the bore of a solenoid. The solenoidal magnetic field guides the electron beam emitted from the cathode to the anode while maintaining a small beam radius. The electron beam strikes a thin, high-atomic-number anode and produces bremsstrahlung. Recently, we reported on an extensive series of experiments 1 where an immersed-B z diode was fielded on the RITS-3 2,3 pulsed power accelerator, a 3-cell inductive voltage generator that produced peak voltages between 4 and 5 MV, ~140 kA of total current, and power pulse widths of ~50 ns. The analysis of those results is on-going. A summary of those results and analyses are presented.
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