Photoconductive semiconductor switches

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 124-130

  Loubriel, Guillermo M ^a   Zutavern, Fred J ^a   Baca, Albert G ^a   Hjalmarson, H P ^a   Plut, Tom A ^a   Helgeson, Wesley D ^a   O'Malley, Martin W ^a   Ruebush, Mitchell H ^a   Brown, Darwin J ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; LASER BEAMS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTOCONDUCTING DEVICES; Q SWITCHED LASERS; RADAR; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

PHOTOCONDUCTIVE SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES (PCSS);

SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES;

EID: 0031124746     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.602482     Document Type: Article

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