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Defence Technology: Zhi Yang, Peng Zhu, Qing-Yun Chu, Qiu Zhang, Ke Wang, Hao-Tian Jian, Rui-Qi Shen
Defence Technology: Zhi Yang, Peng Zhu, Qing-Yun Chu, Qiu Zhang, Ke Wang, Hao-Tian Jian, Rui-Qi Shen
Defence Technology: Zhi Yang, Peng Zhu, Qing-Yun Chu, Qiu Zhang, Ke Wang, Hao-Tian Jian, Rui-Qi Shen
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Article history: Conventional exploding foil initiator (EFI) in ignition or detonation applications hosts many performance
Received 17 March 2021 advantages, but was hindered by the bulky, inaccurate, inefficient and expensive shortcomings. We
Received in revised form highlight a novel micro-chip exploding foil initiator (McEFI) using printed circuit board (PCB) technology.
27 May 2021
The structural parameters were determined based on energy coupling relationship at the component
Accepted 8 June 2021
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interfaces. Next, the prototype McEFI has been batch-fabricated using PCB technology, with a monolithic
structure of 7.0 mm (l) 4.5 mm (w) 4.0 mm (d). As expected, this PCB-McEFI illustrated the successful
firing validations for explosives pellets. This paper has addressed the cost problem in both military
Keywords:
Exploding foil initiator
munitions and civil markets wherever reliable, insensitive and timing-dependent ignition or detonation
Printed circuit board are involved.
Monolithic structure © 2021 China Ordnance Society. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications
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Please cite this article as: Z. Yang, P. Zhu, Q.-y. Chu et al., A micro-chip exploding foil initiator based on printed circuit board technology, Defence
Technology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dt.2021.06.008
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vT Fig. 1. (a) Mesh generation of the model; (b) zoom in detail of the Cu bridge foil.
cV rF ¼ se jEj2 þ V,ðlK VTÞ (1)
vt
where cV is the specific heat capacity of Cu at constant volume, J/kg/ melting point (1358 K).
K; rF is the density, kg/m3; T is the temperature, K; t is the time, s; se Fig. 1 shows the mesh generation of the model and the zoom in
is the electrical conductivity, S/m; E is the electrical field intensity, detail of bridge foil with sectional size of 400 mm (l) 400 mm (w).
V/m; and lK is the heat conductivity, W/m/K. When the sectional size is fixed, the thickness of bridge foil is the
Furthermore, the heat capacity, electrical conductivity, and heat only determinant that directly affects the endothermic melting
conductivity are all related to the temperature, and can be reaction by adjusting the resistance value. There is skin effect in
described empirically as follows, high frequency circuit. The skin-effect depth can be calculated by
combining the angular frequency of current (u ¼ 1.57 107 rad/s)
h i1
cV ¼ 0:1004T þ 355:12 se ¼ 4:12 1010 þ 0:113 105 ðT=11604Þ1:145 lK ¼ 0:0685T þ 420:75 (2)
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Table 1
Material properties for the terminal flyer velocity.
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Next, we evaluate the shock pressure of FR-4 flyer imparting to linear fitting with these data. Coefficients for the calculation of
explosive of HNS-IV (Hexanitrostilbene, [C6H2(NO2)3CH]2) pellet shock pressure and shock duration are listed in Table 2.
[22,23], The calculated shock pressure and shock duration were 6.26 GPa
and 39.82 ns, respectively, corresponding to the calculated velocity
pe ¼ re De ue (8) of 1907 m/s. It is indicated that PCB-McEFI is feasible to detonate
the HNS-IV pellets due to such high shock pressure and duration,
where pe is the shock pressure of flyer imparting to explosive, GPa; compared with the reference results [25e27].
re is the density of explosive pellet, g/cm3; De is the shock wave
velocity in the pellet, m/s; and ue is the particle velocity of explo- 2.3. Determination of FR-4 barrel dimension
sive, m/s.
There is a linear relationship between the shock wave velocity The barrel is another key component in the McEFI, which plays
and the particle velocity: three main roles: (1) shearing the FR-4 film into flyer; (2) providing
the accelerating distance for FR-4 flyer; (3) alleviating the influence
De ¼ ce þ le ue (9) of rarefaction wave on the shock pressure. This demands the barrel
should be provided with sharp edge and good perpendicularity, so
where ce and le are Hugoniot coefficients of the explosive.
materials such as sapphire, stainless steel, silicon and SU-8
Consequently, the shock pressure can be derived using (8) and
photoresist have been widely utilized in the previous study. How-
(9):
ever, these barrel materials are not conducive to realize batch-
preparation of McEFI via PCB technology. In this work, FR-4 was
pe ¼ re ðce þ le ue Þue (10)
directly worked as barrel, simplifying the preparation processes.
According to Newton's third law of motion, the flyer will be The diameter (f) of FR-4 barrel should be capable of involving
subject to the reaction force from the explosive pellet: the electrical-explosion area, which is usually determined by the
side length of bridge foil. When f is set as 600 mm, the melting zone
pf ¼ rf Df vf uf (11) of bridge foil is exactly covered by the barrel according to the
electro-thermal simulation results in section 2.1, which is advan-
similarly where pf is the shock pressure of the explosive pellet on tageous to make the most of electrical-explosion energy. The
the flyer, rf is the density of flyer, Df is the shock wave velocity in the theoretical height (d) of FR-4 barrel is corresponding to the value
flyer, uf is the particle velocity of flyer, and vf is the terminal flyer where flyer reaches its peak velocity, which is conducive to the
velocity calculated by Eqs. (5)e(7). impact of flyer on explosive pellet. In our previous work [15], we
There is also a linear relationship between Df and uf: adopted the ceramic flyer with 50 mm thickness, whose mass is
almost the same as 75 mm-thick FR-4 flyer. Hence, we set the same
height as 400 mm in this work.
Df ¼ cf þ lf vf uf (12)
The FR-4 substrate, also called reflector, should has enough
hardness or stiffness to avoid deformation, aiming to completely
similarly where cf and lf are Hugoniot coefficients of the flyer. reflect the electric explosion. Accordingly, the FR-4 substrate was
The shock pressure is acquired with (11) and (12): thickened compared with the conventional silicon or ceramic ma-
h i terials, and its thickness was 2.0 mm. The length and width of the
pf ¼ rf cf þ lf vf uf vf uf (13) substrate depend on the size of bridge foil, and to be set as
7.0 mm (l) 4.5 mm (w). In summary, the structural parameters of
Both the particle velocity and the shock pressure are continuous PCB-McEFI are listed in Table 3.
at the impact interface, that is
3. Experimental setup
u ¼ uf ¼ ue ; p ¼ pf ¼ pe (14)
Accordingly, the particle velocity and the shock pressure can be 3.1. Fabrication of PCB-McEFI
obtained using Eqs. (10), (13) and (14).
A shock wave emerges in the FR-4 flyer, because the shock PCB technology with multilayer boards refers to the technology
impedance (rD) of HNS-IV pellet is larger than that of the flyer. that multiple PCBs (single-sided or double-sided copper clad lam-
Subsequently a rarefaction wave is reflected when the shock wave inates) were laminated together with pressure attributing to the
arrives at the free surface of flyer. The shock duration is the time bonding effect of heating prepregs (PP). Fig. 4(a) shows the McEFI
before the rarefaction wave catches up the shock wave, thus the was batch-fabricated by laminating two PCBs, where PCB-1and
shock duration is calculated with the FR-4 flyer thickness, PCB-2 had the same overall size of 7.0 mm (l) 4.5 mm
(w) 2.0 mm (d).
2df Unlike multi-steps are required to prepare each component in
t¼ (15)
our previous work [17], in this work PCB technology can realize the
Df
integrated preparation of McEFI. There were six detailed steps to
The shock wave velocities and particle velocities of a fiber-glass manufacture PCB-McEFI. (1) PCB-1 with double-sided copper of
reinforced polyester were given in the reference [24], so the
approximate Hugoniot coefficients of FR-4 flyer were obtained by
Table 3
Structural parameters of PCB-McEFI.
Table 2
Material properties for the shock pressure and shock duration. Structure Parameter
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Fig. 6. Cu bridge foil morphology of 2D (a) and 3D (b) via laser confocal microscopy.
Fig. 6 shows the construction of Cu bridge foil via laser confocal processes could meet the precision requirements for the McEFI
microscopy, whose 2D and 3D appearances are presented in fabrication.
Fig. 6(a) and (b), respectively. In Fig. 6(a), the length and width of
bridge foil were 405 mm and 397 mm, respectively, which fit the
designed parameters. Therefore, photolithographic masking and 4.2. Electrical-explosion characterizations
etching processes could meet the requirements of precise pattern
of bridge foil. Furthermore, the electrodeposited Cu foil had a rather 4.2.1. Electrical parameters of bridge foil
coarse surface presented in Fig. 6(b), and the average thickness was The electrical parameters of Cu bridge foil are listed in Table 4,
4.9 mm. under capacitor discharging voltages ranging from 1.25 kV to
Fig. 7(a) shows the 3D configuration, including the detailed 2.00 kV (the capacitances were 0.22 mF or 0.40 mF). The burst time
geometries, as well as the relative positions of the bridge foil, barrel, refers to the moment where the power calculated by voltage
vias, pads, and explosive casing. This constructional detail was multiply current climbs up to climax, which is found almost to be in
consistent with the prototype, as presented in the upper-left line with the time of voltage spike. At this time, the bridge foil has
corner. Fig. 7(b) shows the top view, located in the inner layer been vaporized, and we can figure out the burst current, burst
(L3). There were ten plating-holes to realize electrical conduction, power, and burst energy (the integral of power over time). The
consisting of eight smaller blind-vias with 300 mm diameter and energy deposition ratio indicates how much energy stored in the
two larger through-vias with 800 mm diameter. Fig. 7(c) shows a high-voltage capacitor was transferred into the bridge foil, which
cross-sectional structure, along the center and perpendicular to was calculated with the burst energy divided by the storage energy.
YOZ plane. The two through-vias passing through the two pads As the step-up of discharging voltages, the peak current, peak
were clearly delineated, and the barrel size was 600 mm voltage, burst current, burst power, and burst energy were all
(f) 400 mm (d). In summary, these marked structural parameters increased under the identical high-voltage capacitor. Furthermore,
were basically consistent with those in Table 3, indicating PCB the peak current time and burst time presented an approaching
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Table 4
Electrical parameters of Cu bridge foil.
Capacitance/ Discharging voltage/ Peak current/ Peak voltage/ Peak current time/ Burst time/ Burst current/ Burst power/ Burst energy/ Energy deposition
mF kV kA kV ns ns kA MW mJ ratio/%
0.22 1.25 2.43 0.466 99.2 158 1.19 0.50 37.7 21.9
1.50 2.74 0.768 92.8 135 1.75 1.33 61.6 24.9
1.75 3.37 0.753 100 139 2.24 1.67 83.8 24.9
2.00 3.94 1.02 81.8 116 2.89 2.94 99.0 22.5
0.40 1.25 3.42 0.565 131 184 1.90 1.01 78.3 25.1
1.50 3.98 0.816 121 154 2.59 2.09 101 22.4
1.75 4.41 0.955 95.4 129 3.22 3.06 122 19.9
2.00 4.97 0.979 94.8 135 3.82 3.73 181 22.6
bridge foil was 135 ns, so its vaporization time was 20.0 ns, which
was the subtraction result by deducting the melting time of about
115 ns from the electro-thermal simulation. The results show that
once the current flowed through the bridge foil, the temperature
rise rate would be higher and higher, which was consistent with the
electro-thermal simulation. The burst current was 2.59 kA when
the Cu bridge foil operated under 0.40 mF/1.50 kV, as plotted in
Fig. 8(b). Therefore, HNS-IV pellets can be theoretically reliably-
initiated by this firing condition according to the calculated shock
pressure and duration in section 2.2.
Fig. 9. Explosion flow field of Cu bridge foil via an ultra-high-speed framing camera.
Fig. 10. Shock ignition of BPN. (a) CDU for firing validation. (b) Operation of shock ignition. (c) Images of BPN flame via high-speed photography at 0.22 mF/1.50 kV.
4.3.2. Shock detonation of HNS-IV SSA was about 17 m2/g [35], which fitted the specification. HNS-IV
EFI is also frequently adopted to realize the shock-to-detonation pellets were die-pressed in a mould to the dimension of 2.3 mm
transition of explosives, and HNS-IV is a well characterized explo- (f) 2.0 mm (d) with the density of 1.60 g/cm3, as presented in the
sive that has been utilized in EFI for several decades [31e33]. This is upper-right corner of Fig. 11. By replacing the BPN pellet in Fig. 10
due to its reliable threshold energy to short-duration pulse shock (a) with HNS-IV pellet, the shock results illustrated that explosive
under high-speed impact with small-size thin flyer plates, and its pellets were detonated under the minimum firing state of 0.40 mF/
excellent thermal and shock stabilities. 1.80 kV.
Fig. 11 shows the SEM (scanning electron microscope) image of The burst current was 3.33 kA at 0.40 mF/1.80 kV, so we could
HNS-IV powder, which was prepared via a homemade microfluidic figure out the burst current density as Jb ¼ 1:67 108 A=cm2 ,
platform with inherent safety and high throughput [34]. The further get the terminal velocity vf ¼ 2403 m=s. The real velocity
average particle size of HNS-IV was about 200 nm, so the calculated was higher than the threshold velocity of 1907 m/s, with a relative
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our previous work [15,16]. The FR-4 flyer was described with shock
equation of state (EOS). The Lee-Tarver ignition and growth model
was arranged to describe HNS-IV, including two JWL (Jones-Wil-
kins-Lee) EOS and a three-term reaction rate equation.
The JWL EOS used for unreacted explosive and reaction
products:
Fig. 11. SEM image of HNS-IV and its pellets. where l is the reaction fraction, t is the reaction time, r is the
current density, re is the initial density, p is pressure. I, G1, G2, a, b, x,
c, d, y, e, g and z are all constants.
deviation of 26.0%. The reasons for higher firing energy were many The material properties of FR-4 were listed in Table 2, and Lee-
aspects-involved, and we hold the first determinant was the het- Tarver model parameters were provided with the reference [27].
erogeneous foil surface that causing a low energy utilization ratio. ANSYS/AUTODYN was adopted to simulate the shock-to-detonation
Another main reason was that FR-4 flyer needed higher energy to transition (SDT) process, and we obtained the threshold velocity of
shear, so that less energy was reserved for driving. 2100 m/s after variable-step attempts.
It was performed with numerical simulation that the shock-to- Fig. 12 shows the pressure distribution in HNS-IV pellet at
detonation transition of HNS-IV pellet under the FR-4 flyer impact, different reaction moments, under the 2100 m/s threshold velocity
in order to further check the higher firing energy compared with of FR-4 flyer. The pressure increases exponentially with time, and
Fig. 12. Pressure distribution among HNS-IV under the 2100 m/s threshold velocity.
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