Recent measurements of the ferratron: A high-voltage, fast risetime gas switch with a ferroelectric trigger

PPPS 2001 - Pulsed Power Plasma Science 2001

Volumn 2, Issue , 2001, Pages 1770-1773

  Farr, Everett G ^a   Elizondo, Juan M ^a,b   Lehr, Jane M ^a,c   Ellibee, Donald E ^a  

^a Farr Research Inc ^*  (United States)

^b Electromagnetic Technologies   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; FERROELECTRICITY; JITTER; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; TESTING; TRANSMISSIONS;

COAXIAL STRUCTURES; ELECTRICALLY LARGE; EMISSION OF ELECTRON; HIGH REPETITION RATE; MEASUREMENTS OF; TDR (TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY); TEST CHAMBERS; TIME-DOMAIN TRANSMISSION;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 34347375288     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PPPS.2001.1001915     Document Type: Conference Paper

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