Theoretical treatment of explosive-driven ferroelectric generators

Author

Tkach, Yaroslav ; Shkuratov, Sergey I. ; Talantsev, Evgueni F. ; Dickens, James C. ; Kristiansen, Magne ; Altgilbers, Larry L. ; Tracy, Philip T.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electromagn. Res., Kharkov, Ukraine

Volume

30

Issue

5

fYear

2002

fDate

10/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1665

Lastpage

1673

Abstract

As a part of the New World Vistas Program, a series of ultra-compact explosive-driven ferroelectric generators (EDFEGs) has been designed, constructed, and tested by Texas Tech University providing well-documented EDFEG output parameters that were used to benchmark a theoretical model of the EDFEG developed at the Institute of Electromagnetic Research. A description of the model for the EDFEG is presented along with a brief description of the EDFEG, the experimental setup, and test procedures that were used. A comparison of the experimental and calculated results shows them to be in good agreement.

Keywords

exploding wires; ferroelectric devices; ferroelectric materials; pulse generators; pulsed power supplies; shock waves; Institute of Electromagnetic Research; New World Vistas Program; Texas Tech University; ferroelectric materials; output parameters; pulse generation; shock waves; ultra-compact explosive-driven ferroelectric generators; Benchmark testing; Electric shock; Electromagnetic modeling; Explosives; Ferroelectric materials; Magnetohydrodynamic power generation; Permittivity measurement; Power generation; Shock waves; Space technology;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0093-3813

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPS.2002.806618

Filename

1178193