Solid-state high voltage nanosecond pulse generator

Digest of Technical Papers-IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1199-1202

  Wang, Fei ^a   Tang, Tao ^a   Cathey, Charlie ^a   Kuthi, Andras ^a   Gundersen, Martin ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGING (MATERIALS); DESIGN AND OPERATION; HIGH-VOLTAGE (HV); LOW COSTS; MAGNETIC PULSE COMPRESSORS; NANOSECOND PULSE GENERATORS; OPENING SWITCHES; PULSED-POWER; SEMICONDUCTOR OPENING SWITCHES; TRANSIENT PLASMA IGNITION;

ACTIVE FILTERS; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ELECTRICITY; IGNITION; PULSE CIRCUITS; SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES; SIGNAL GENERATORS;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 45149089144     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PPC.2005.300553     Document Type: Conference Paper

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