A 10-Ω high-voltage nanosecond pulse generator

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 12 PART 2, 2010, Pages 4079-4085

  Merla, Caterina ^a   El Amari, Saad ^a   Kenaan, Mohamad ^a   Liberti, Micaela ^b   Apollonio, Francesca ^b   Arnaud Cormos, Delia ^a   Couderc, Vincent ^a   Leveque, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electroporation cuvette; finite difference time domain (FDTD); high voltage; nanosecond generator; optical switches

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS; ELECTROPORATION; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; FDTD SIMULATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN MODELS; HIGH VOLTAGE; HIGH-VOLTAGES; LINEAR REGIME; LOW IMPEDANCE; NANOSECOND GENERATOR; NANOSECOND PULSE GENERATORS; NUMERICAL CHARACTERIZATION; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES; SPICE ANALYSIS; VOLTAGE SENSOR; WIDE BAND FREQUENCIES;

CELL CULTURE; ELECTRIC SWITCHGEAR; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PULSE GENERATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES; SIGNAL GENERATORS; TIME SWITCHES;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 78650419540     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2086470     Document Type: Article

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