Operational Window for a Plasma Erosion Opening Switch Used for Voltage Multiplication on Pulsed Power Generators.

Abstract

The Plasma Erosion Opening Switch (PEOS) is a fast opening switch which has been shown to be capable of conducting megampere-level currents before opening in <10 ns. Such a switch can be used for inductive storage in order to compress the output from conventional pulsed power generator in order to achieve voltage and power multiplication. An operational window is described herein which illustrates the voltage regime made accessible for a given machine by the switch. Keywords: Opening switch; Inductive storage; Pulsed power; and Pulse compression. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 05, 1985
Accession Number
ADA155482

Entities

People

  • Paul F. Ottinger

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Circuits
  • Compression
  • Electrons
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • Generators
  • Impedance
  • Inductance
  • Inductors
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Military Research
  • Nuclear Engineering
  • Power
  • Pulse Compression
  • Pulsed Power
  • Simulations

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering