Parallel, staged opening switch power conditioning techniques for flux compression generator applications
Abstract
The Air Force Weapons Laboratory, working jointly with Los Alamos National Laboratory, has conducted a series of experiments directed at exploring composite, or staged, switching techniques for use in opening switches in applications which require the conduction of very high currents (or current densities) with very low losses for relatively long times (several tens of microseconds), and the interruption of these currents in much shorter times (ultimately a few hundred nanoseconds). The results of those experiments are reported.
- Publication:
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Presented at the 5th IEEE Pulsed Power Conf
- Pub Date:
- 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985pupo.confU....R
- Keywords:
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- Electric Current;
- Explosions;
- High Voltages;
- Implosions;
- Power Conditioning;
- Power Supply Circuits;
- Pulse Generators;
- Switches;
- Contactors;
- Design Analysis;
- Direct Power Generators;
- Magnetic Flux;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering