Characteristics study of multigaps gas switch with corona discharge for voltage balance

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 340-345

  Liang, Tianxue ^a   Jiang, Xiaofeng ^a   Wang, Zhiguo ^a   Sun, Fengju ^a   Cong, Peitian ^a   Qiu, Aici ^a  

^a NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Breakdown characteristic; corona discharge; gas switch; linear transformer driver; multigaps

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894653805     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2013.2295096     Document Type: Article

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