Nanosecond, electrical triggering of water switches

IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1066-1075

  Xiao, Shu ^a   Joshi, Ravindra P ^a   Kolb, Juergen F ^a   Schoenbach, Karl H ^b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Old Dominion University   (United States)

Author keywords

Compact pulse power.; Electrical triggering; Jitter; Streamer; Trigatron; Triple point; Water discharge; Water switches

Indexed keywords

COMPACT PULSE POWER.; ELECTRICAL TRIGGERING; STREAMER; TRIGATRON; TRIPLE POINT; WATER DISCHARGE; WATER SWITCHES;

DC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; GLASS; GROUNDING ELECTRODES; TUNGSTEN;

JITTER;

EID: 70249116836     PISSN: 10709878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDEI.2009.5211856     Document Type: Conference Paper

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