Title : 
Copper coating of aluminium contact surfaces using magneto-plasma accelerator
         
        
            Author : 
Sivkov, A.A. ; Gerasimov, D.U. ; Tsibina, A.S.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
High Voltage Res. Inst., Tomsk Polytech. Univ., Russia
         
        
        
        
            fDate : 
26 June-3 July 2004
         
        
        
            Abstract : 
The urgency of the task of copper drawing covering on aluminium surfaces is proved. For this purpose, the use of pulse magneto-plasma accelerator with high-current by the category such as Z-pinch is shown. In atmospheric conditions, the copper coverings of ∼100 microns-thick on aluminium samples are received. The high adherence, which is caused by the formation of a boundary layer of mutual mixture, influence the hypervelocity of a flow of copper plasma on an aluminium surface. The decision for the overlapping high-current problem of contact pair Cu-Al and significant reduction of its transitive contact resistance is experimentally shown as the copper coating is put on an aluminium surface with the help magneto-plasma accelerator.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Z pinch; adhesion; aluminium alloys; coating techniques; coatings; contact resistance; copper alloys; plasma accelerators; plasma boundary layers; plasma flow; plasma materials processing; surface treatment; CuAl; Z-pinch; aluminium contact surfaces; boundary layer; copper coating; high adherence; hypervelocity; pulse magneto-plasma accelerator; transitive contact resistance; Acceleration; Accelerator magnets; Aluminum; Coatings; Coaxial components; Contacts; Copper; Electric resistance; Plasma accelerators; Surface resistance;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Science and Technology, 2004. KORUS 2004. Proceedings. The 8th Russian-Korean International Symposium on
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-8383-4
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/KORUS.2004.1555352