Solid-State High Voltage Nanosecond Pulse Generator

Author

Wang, Fei ; Tang, Tao ; Cathey, Charlie ; Kuthi, Andras ; Gundersen, Martin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. - Electrophys., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

fYear

2005

fDate

13-17 June 2005

Firstpage

1199

Lastpage

1202

Abstract

Pulses shorter than 50 ns are essential for further study on transient plasma ignition and streamer physics. Design and operation of a compact full solid-state pulse generator is presented. The pulse generator can create 20 ns FWHM, 60 kV amplitude pulses into 300-ohm load. It is comprised with IGBT switched resonant charging circuit; two steps of magnetic pulse compressor and a semiconductor opening switch (SOS) based pulse generator. The use of low cost mass-produced rectifier diode as an opening switch was reported.

Keywords

power semiconductor diodes; power semiconductor switches; pulsed power supplies; pulsed power switches; IGBT switched resonant charging circuit; magnetic pulse compressor; mass-produced rectifier diode; semiconductor opening switch; solid-state high voltage nanosecond pulse generator; streamer physics; transient plasma ignition; voltage 60 kV; Ignition; Magnetic resonance; Magnetic switching; Physics; Plasmas; Pulse generation; Solid state circuits; Switches; Switching circuits; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pulsed Power Conference, 2005 IEEE

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9189-6

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9190-x

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PPC.2005.300553

Filename

4084439