Design of a novel self-triggering linear transformer driver

As the new generation of pulsed power architecture, linear transformer drivers (LTDs) are attached importance to the main countries all over the world in recently years. Though the LTDs can dramatically reduce the size and cost of high power accelerators, the triggering system of the gas switches is complex, especially the triggering timing is hard to control. To simplify the control system of triggering, realizing the self-triggering process of the gas switches in LTDs, like Marx generators, is a method to solve the problem mentioned above. In this paper, some self-triggering methods are discribed. Through simulation and analysis, an original design scheme of prototype self-triggering LTD is finished. At last, the structure of the prototype device is introduced; the preliminary experimental results are demonstrated and analised deeply.