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Pulsed Wire Discharge (PWD)

 

 

   When a pulsed high current is driven through a thin metallic wire, the Joule heating causes electrical energy deposition which can turn the whole wire into a plasma.  By cooling this plasma with an ambient gas, we can obtain a large number of very fine solid particles.  This method of nanosize powder production was originally developed by our institute and was named as “Pulsed Wire Discharge” (PWD).

 

 

Principle of Pulsed Wire Discharge (PWD)

                 

 

 

Nanosize powders of Cu synthesized by PWD

 

 

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Last updated: July 1, 2004

 

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