About the Facility

3-4 Pulses Per Day
Large suite of diagnostics
On-site machine fabrication support
Staff Scientist, technician and Grad Student support

134 Rhodes Drive,
Ithaca, NY 14850

COBRA is designed to drive ~ 10 nH loads at 1 MA with 95-230 ns zero-to-peak pulses. COBRA has been used for a variety of HED experiments using conical wire arrays, laboratory plasma jets, magnetic reconnection geometries, X-pinches and gas-puff, wire array and liner Z-pinches. Staffing includes one machinist, two technicians, a research support specialist with a strong optics background, a postdoc, graduate students and three faculty, all familiar with the COBRA operation.

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