EMIR: Current State and Perspectives

Summary form only given. EMIR (an abbreviation from Russian: electro-magnetic X-ray radiation source) is a facility that should provide generation of high-power fluxes of soft X-ray radiation with an energy in a pulse of ges10 MJ and a power of ges500 TW. In the paper we present a current state of the research of the EMIR main units: disk magneto-cumulative generators, being the base of current pulses formers of tens megamperes amplitude at a rise time of ~1 mus; plasma current opening switches, providing shortening of the current rise front of the explosive generators up to les100 ns; and devices of the magneto-cumulative generators energy transformation into the soft X-ray radiation. Analysis of results of the experimental works is carried out, and perspective directions of further research are proposed.