Scalable, compact, nanosecond pulse generator with a high repetition rate for biomedical applications requiring intense electric fields

PPC2009 - 17th IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1418-1421

  Sanders, Jason M ^a   Kuthi, Andras ^a   Vernier, P Thomas ^a   Wu, Yu Hsuan ^a   Jiang, Chunqi ^a   Gundersen, Martin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; CORE FEATURES; ELECTROPERMEABILIZATION; HIGH CURRENTS; HIGH REPETITION RATE; HIGH VOLTAGE; HIGH-VOLTAGE PULSE GENERATOR; INPUT VOLTAGES; INPUT-OUTPUT; NANOSECOND PULSE GENERATORS; OUTPUT DELAY; OUTPUT PULSE; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PLASMA GENERATION; POWER MOSFETS; PULSE FORMING NETWORKS; RECOVERY DIODES; REDUCED COMPLEXITY; SERIES-PARALLEL; SINGLE STAGE; SWITCHING STAGE; VOLTAGE INPUT;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; JITTER; MOSFET DEVICES; PULSE REPETITION RATE; SIGNAL GENERATORS;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 77949931579     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PPC.2009.5386392     Document Type: Conference Paper

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