Fast high voltage pulse generator with nonlinear transmission line for high repetitive operation

Author

Ibuka, S. ; Miyazawa, T. ; Ishii, A. ; Ishii, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1995

fDate

3-6 July 1995

Firstpage

1365

Abstract

The pulse sharpening effect of nonlinear transmission lines (NLTL) with nonlinear power capacitors has been applied to fast high voltage pulse generation. NLTL can be utilized for high repetitive operation, since NLTL consist of only passive elements. The main problem of the scheme is difficulty of obtaining nonlinear power capacitors with high withstand voltage. In this study, the authors employed commercially available BaTiO/sub 3/ ceramic capacitors as the nonlinear power capacitors, and confirmed the high voltage operation of NLTL in the voltage range of up to 20 kV.

Keywords

ceramic capacitors; power capacitors; power supplies to apparatus; power transmission lines; pulse generators; pulsed power technology; BaTiO/sub 3/; BaTiO/sub 3/ ceramic capacitors; high-voltage pulse generator; nonlinear power capacitors; nonlinear transmission lines; pulse sharpening effect; voltage range; Barium; Capacitance; Capacitors; Ceramics; Power semiconductor switches; Power transmission lines; Pulse generation; Transmission line theory; Transmission lines; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pulsed Power Conference, 1995. Digest of Technical Papers., Tenth IEEE International

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2791-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PPC.1995.599807

Filename

599807