High Voltage, High Power Operation of the Plasma Erosion Opening Switch.

Abstract

A Plasma Erosion Opening Switch (PEOS) is used as the opening switch for a vacuum inductive storage system driven by a 1.8-MV, 1.6-TW pulsed power generator. A 135 nH vacuum inductor is current charged to about 750 kA in 50 ns through the closed PEOS which then opens in < 10 ns into an inverse ion diode load. Electrical diagnostics and nuclear activations from ions accelerated in the diode yield a peak load voltage (4.25 MV) and peak load power (2.8 TW) that are 2.4 and 1.8 times greater than ideal matched load values for the same generator pulse. Keywords: Vacuum opening switch; Voltage multiplication; Pulse compression; Power multiplication.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 07, 1987
Accession Number
ADA180182

Entities

People

  • B.V. Weber
  • F. C. Young
  • J. M. Neri
  • J. R. Boller
  • P. F. Ottinger

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aluminum
  • Aluminum Foil
  • Availability
  • Classification
  • Deuterons
  • Dielectric Polymers
  • Electrons
  • Energy
  • Gain
  • Generators
  • High Voltage
  • Impedance
  • Inductors
  • Nuclear Reactions
  • Power
  • Power Gain
  • Security

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Plasma Physics.