Piezoelectric Transformer Aided X-Ray Generation in Vacuum


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The results of an experimental study of x-ray generation aided by a ceramic piezoelectric transformer placed in vacuum are presented. X-rays were emitted with the piezoelectric transformer tuned to resonance at about 20 kHz. A characteristic emission peak of a titanium target at energy of 4.5 keV against the Bremsstrahlung background was observed in the measured x-ray spectra. The maximum energy of the x-ray Bremsstrahlung reaches 12 keV. This means that the electrons are accelerated in vacuum in the field of the piezoelectric transformer to at least 12 keV.

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A. V. Shchagin

International Scientific and Educational Laboratory of Radiation Physics, Belgorod State National Research University; National Scientific Center – Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology

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Email: shchagin@kipt.kharkov.ua
Russian Federation, Belgorod; Kharkov

V. S. Miroshnik

National Scientific Center – Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology

Email: shchagin@kipt.kharkov.ua
Ukraine, Kharkov

V. I. Volkov

National Scientific Center – Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology

Email: shchagin@kipt.kharkov.ua
Ukraine, Kharkov

A. S. Kubankin

International Scientific and Educational Laboratory of Radiation Physics, Belgorod State National Research University

Email: shchagin@kipt.kharkov.ua
Russian Federation, Belgorod

O. O. Ivashchuk

International Scientific and Educational Laboratory of Radiation Physics, Belgorod State National Research University

Email: shchagin@kipt.kharkov.ua
Russian Federation, Belgorod

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