Statistical Characteristics of the Output Voltage in Compact Marx Generators

• Authors: A. Razi Kazemi , K. Niayesh
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Compact Marx generators are widely used as portable pulse generator in different industrial applications, where high power pulses with rise times of order of some tens of nanoseconds are needed. For those applications, closing switches with very short delay and jitter times have to be used. Considering the fact that the breakdown of spark gap is a statistical process, the delay times of the closing switches are statistical voltage-dependent parameters. As a result, the characteristics of the output voltage of the Marx generator, i.e. its amplitude and rise time, are also statistical parameters. In this paper, taking the statistical behaviour of the breakdown process in spark gaps into consideration, the statistical characteristics of the output voltage have been studied in detail.

Keywords

EN

52.75.Kq; 41.20.Gz

Discipline

• 41.20.Gz: Magnetostatics; magnetic shielding, magnetic induction, boundary-value problems
• 52.75.Kq: Plasma switches (e.g., spark gaps)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 115
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1158-1159

Dates

published

2009-06

Contributors

author

A. Razi Kazemi

• School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, P.O. Box 14395/515, IR-14395 Tehran, Iran

author

K. Niayesh

• School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, P.O. Box 14395/515, IR-14395 Tehran, Iran

References

• 1. R. Mayes, J. Cary, Proc. Power Systems Conference, Coral Springs, 2002, paper no. 02PSC-25, p. 702
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• 3. S.T. Pai, Qi Zhang, Introduction to High Power Technology, World Sci., Hong Kong 2003, p. 62

Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.115.1158