High voltage, high power operation of the plasma erosion opening switch

Technical Report · Tue Apr 07 04:00:00 EDT 1987

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6472201· OSTI ID:6472201

Neri, J M; Boller, J R; Ottinger, P F; Weber, B V; Young, F C

A Plasma Erosion Opening Switch (PEOS) is used as the opening switch for a vacuum inductive storage system driven by a 1.8-MV, 1.6-TW pulsed power generator. A 135-nH vacuum inductor is current charged to approx.750 kA in 50 ns through the closed PEOS which then opens in <10 ns into an inverse ion diode load. Electrical diagnostics and nuclear activations from ions accelerated in the diode yield a peak load voltage (4.25 MV) and peak load power (2.8 TW) that are 2.4 and 1.8 times greater than ideal matched load values for the same generator pulse.

• Research Organization: Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC (USA). Plasma Physics Div.; JAYCOR, Vienna, VA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AI08-79DP40092
• OSTI ID: 6472201
• Report Number(s): NRL-MR-5948; ON: DE87008692
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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