Development of High Power, High Pressure, Rep-Rate, Liquid Dielectric Switches

Abstract

The University of Missouri-Columbia (UMC) is developing high power liquid dielectric switches intended to address future high power microwave (HPM) applications. Although requirements encompass a broad parameter space, the initial switch concept focu250-300kV output switch operated at 100 pps that will be scaled to 1MV. Failure to clear high electric field regions prior to the next charge cycle results in prefixes, thereby limiting the maximum achievable repetition rate.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA634440

Entities

People

  • Allen Grimmis
  • Glen Salo
  • Glenn Anderson
  • Josh Leckbee
  • Kenneth Mcdonald
  • Peter Norgard
  • Randy Curry
  • Ray Gravey
  • Susan Heidger

Organizations

  • University of Missouri

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Alkanes
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Cameras
  • Dielectrics
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Electric Fields
  • Engineering
  • High Power Microwaves
  • High Pressure
  • Missouri
  • Photographs
  • Photography
  • Pressure Switches
  • Pulsed Power
  • Repetition Rate
  • Test Stands
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electronics Engineering
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster