Very fast rise-time short-pulse high-voltage generator

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 34, Issue 5 I, 2006, Pages 1822-1831

  Pécastaing, Laurent ^a   Paillol, Jean ^a   Reess, Thierry ^a   Gibert, Alain ^a   Domens, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

Author keywords

Fast high voltage (HV) generator; Ferrite cores transformer; High bandwidth probe; Pulsed source; Thyristor switch

Indexed keywords

FERRITES; JITTER; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; PULSE TRANSFORMERS; THYRISTORS;

FAST HIGH-VOLTAGE GENERATOR; FERRITE CORES TRANSFORMER; HIGH-BANDWIDTH PROBE; PULSED SOURCE; THYRISTOR SWITCH;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 33750422089     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2006.883346     Document Type: Conference Paper

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