Pulsed Power and Power Conditioning Capacitors

• Authors: F. Macdougall , T. Jow , J. Ennis , X. Yang , S. Yen , R. Cooper , J. Gilbert , M. Schneider , C. Naruo , J. Bates
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A capacitor development effort focused on capacitors used in pulsed power and power conversion applications underwent at General Atomics Electronic Systems Inc. (GA-ESI) for decades. In recent years, funding for these efforts has accelerated the rate of development progress to the point where the time it takes to decrease the size of a capacitor by half has dropped from 10 years to 4 years. This progress made in pulsed power and power conversion capacitors will be described along with the performance characteristics of today's capacitors.

Keywords

EN

84.32.Tt; 84.60.Ve

Discipline

• 84.32.Tt: Capacitors(for electrochemical capacitors and supercapacitors, see 82.47.Uv)
• 84.60.Ve: Energy storage systems, including capacitor banks(see also 82.47.Uv Electrochemical capacitors; supercapacitors, and 88.80.F- Energy storage technologies)

• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 115
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 989-991

Dates

published

2009-06

Contributors

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F. Macdougall

• General Atomics Electronic Systems, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA

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T. Jow

• US Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, Adelphi, USA

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J. Ennis

• General Atomics Electronic Systems, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA

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X. Yang

• General Atomics Electronic Systems, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA

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S. Yen

• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA

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R. Cooper

• General Atomics Electronic Systems, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA

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J. Gilbert

• General Atomics Electronic Systems, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA

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M. Schneider

• General Atomics Electronic Systems, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA

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C. Naruo

• General Atomics Electronic Systems, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA

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J. Bates

• General Atomics Electronic Systems, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA

References

• 1. J.B. Ennis, F.W. MacDougall, X.H. Yang, R.A. Cooper, K. Seal, C. Naruo, B. Spinks, P. Kroessler, J. Bates, IEEE Pulsed Power and Plasma Science Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico 2007, p. 265
• 2. F. MacDougall, T.R. Jow, J. Ennis, S.P.S. Yen, X.H. Yang, J. Ho, IEEE Power Modulator Conference, and High Voltage Conference, Las Vegas 2008. Proceedings of 2008, p. 167
• 3. J.B. Ennis, F.W. MacDougall, X.H. Yang, A.H. Bushnell, R.A. Cooper, J.E. Gilbert, IEEE Power Modulator Conference and High Voltage Conference, Las Vegas 2008, p. 53

Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.115.989