An Exploding Wire-Compression Method for Evaluating the Electrical Conductivity of Diamond-Like Carbon in a Warm Dense State

We have employed an exploding-wire compression method to measure the electrical conductivity of diamondlike carbon (DLC) in a warm dense matter (WDM) state. We generated a DLC in the WDM state using shock compression driven by an exploding-wire discharge within a rigid capillary. To elucidate the generation of DLC inWDM, we performed a 1-D magnetohydrodynamic simulation. Using the numerical results, we estimated the electrical conductivity of the DLC plasma. By comparing the time-evolutions of the voltage and current for gold and gold + DLC samples, we demonstrated that the voltage-current evolution is different in the two cases. From the absorption spectroscopy, we estimated the DLC temperature to be 8000-9000 K. By comparing the results of the experiment with those of the numerical simulation, we determined the electrical conductivity of the DLC plasma to be 10(6) S/m. This is relatively high compared with the electrical conductivity of the conventional carbon plasma, but the experimental results are similar to the theoretical values for diamond at solid density.