Individual Brick Performance for the Cinco Pulsed-Power Driver Used for Equation-of-State Experiments

Cinco is a low-inductance, pulsed-power driver that will be capable of providing a 5-MA current with a 250-ns 10–90 rise time. Cinco requires ∼ 50 bricks in parallel to reach peak current. A peak magnetic pressure of ∼ 1 Mbar can be produced with a purely inductive load and with a 1-cm conductor width. Cinco's low inductance is due to its parallel-brick - solid-dielectric, strip-line design. Bricks can be individually qualified before being placed in the larger strip-line configurations. The focus of this poster will be on the test phase of the bricks.