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Keiji Nagai, Kohei Miyamoto, Tomokazu Iyoda, Cao Pan, Zhongze Gu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 216-220
Technical Paper | Nineteenth Target Fabrication Meeting | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11527
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This paper introduces examples of low-density (<50 mg/cm3) metal oxide targets using the electrospinning technique. Millimeter-sized targets of vanadium oxide and copper oxide were fabricated successfully. Low-density materials give well-controlled low-density plasma to produce an optically thin plasma. The advantage of the electrospinning sol-gel method is that the microstructure of the metal oxide fiber sheet can be designed and fabricated to meet the demand of the target in a very convenient way with mass production. The obtained low-density metal oxide can be used for the laser target to generate extreme ultraviolet light and X-rays.