Critical Component Requirements for Compact Pulse Power System Architectures

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1262-1267

  Nunnally, William Charles ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compact; inductive risetime; pulse power; resistive phase; switch parameters

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008039047     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2005.852406     Document Type: Article

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