Mechanism of Unstable Behavior of Parallel Fuses as an Opening Switch

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 860-864

  Shimomura, Naoyuki ^a   Nagata, Masayoshi ^a   Grabowski, Chris ^b   Akiyama, Hidenori ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; COPPER; ELECTRIC COILS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; ELECTRIC WIRE; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; PULSE GENERATORS; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

INPUT ENERGY; OPENING SWITCH; PARALLEL FUSES; STORAGE INDUCTOR; UNSTABLE CONDITIONS;

ELECTRIC FUSES;

EID: 0029388819     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.473205     Document Type: Article

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