Design and Testing of a Load Current Multiplier on Zebra Facility

The Load Current Multiplier concept (LCM) was validated for the first time on a high‐voltage nanosecond pulse‐power generator. The designed new device allowed to increase the load current from the nominal 0.8–0.9 MA up to 1.6 MA in static loads with constant inductance and up to 1.4 MA in a planar wire‐array plasma loads. These results were achieved without modifying the generator energetic or architecture. LCM allowed both the load magnetic energy increase and the increase of soft X‐ray radiation from z‐pinch plasmas.