Gas Discharge Closing Switches
Pulsed power technology, in the simplest of terms, usually concerns the storage of electrical energy over relatively long times and then its rapid release over a comparatively short period. However, if we leave the definition at that, we miss a multitude of aspects that are important in the ultimate...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
1990, 1990
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1990 |
| Series: | Advances in Pulsed Power Technology
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 General Switching Considerations
- 2 Electrical Breakdown In Gases In Electric Fields
- 3 Gas Filled Spark Gaps
- Section 3a Self Breakdown Gaps
- Section 3b Trigatron Spark Gaps
- Section 3c Field Distortion Three Electrode Gaps
- Section 3d Electron Beam Triggering of Gas Filled Spark Gaps
- Section 3e Laser Triggering of Gas Filled Spark Gaps
- 4 Vacuum Switches
- Section 4a Electrical Breakdown in Vacuum
- Section 4b Recovery of Vacuum Spark Gaps
- Section 4c Triggered Vacuum Switch Construction and Performance
- 5 Repetitive Operation and Lifetime Considerations for Spark Gaps
- Section 5a Repetitive Spark Gap Switches
- Section 5b Lifetime Considerations
- 6 Surface Discharge Switches
- 7 Thyratrons
- Section 7a Design Principles and Operation Characteristics
- Section 7b Hydrogen Thyratrons and Their Applications as Developed in the UK
- Section 7c Studies of Fundamental Processes in Thyratrons
- Section 7d Fundamental Limitations of Hydrogen Thyratron Discharges
- 8 Metal Vapor Switches
- Section 8a The Mercury-Pool-Cathode Ignitron
- Section 8b Liquid-Metal Plasma Valves
- 9 The Pseudospark Switch
- Section 9a The Pseudospark
- Section 9b The Triggered Pseudospark Discharge
- Section 9c The Back-Lighted Thyratron
- Section 9d High Power, High Current Pseudospark Switches
- Section 9e Pseudospark Switches for High Repetition Rates and Fast Current Risetimes
- Contributors