Vacuum circuit breaker current-zero phenomena

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 33, Issue 5 I, 2005, Pages 1589-1593

  van Lanen, Ezra P A ^a   Popov, Marjan ^a   van der Sluis, Lou ^a   Smeets, René P P ^b,c  

^a Department of Microelectronics   (Netherlands)

^b KEMA   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Current chopping; Short circuit currents; Vacuum arcs; Vacuum circuit breakers

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC ARCS; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; PLASMAS; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS; VACUUM APPLICATIONS; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

CURRENT CHOPPING; VACUUM ARCS; VACUUM CIRCUIT BREAKERS;

ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS;

EID: 27644438815     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2005.856486     Document Type: Article

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