Tapered transmission-line transformers for fast high-voltage transients

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 30, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 1712-1721

  Baum, Carl E ^a   Lehr, Jane M ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Impedance transformation; Nonuniform transmission lines; Pulse droop; Tapered transmission lines transformers

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; GAIN MEASUREMENT; OPTIMIZATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; TRANSIENTS; VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT;

HIGH VOLTAGE TRANSIENTS; IMPEDANCE TRANSFORMATION; NONUNIFORM TRANSMISSION LINES; PULSE DROOP; TAPERED TRANSMISSION LINE TRANSFORMER; TIME VOLTAGE GAIN;

PULSE TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 0036826825     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2002.806614     Document Type: Article

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