Reusable fast opening switch

Patent · Tue Dec 20 23:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:6893196

Van Devender, J P; Emin, D

A reusable fast opening switch for transferring energy, in the form of a high power pulse, from an electromagnetic storage device such as an inductor into a load. The switch is efficient, compact, fast and reusable. The switch comprises a ferromagnetic semiconductor which undergoes a fast transition between conductive and metallic states at a critical temperature and which undergoes the transition without a phase change in its crystal structure. A semiconductor such as europium rich europhous oxide, which undergoes a conductor to insulator transition when it is joule heated from its conductor state, can be used to form the switch.

• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• Assignee: Dept. of Energy
• Patent Number(s): None
• Application Number: ON: DE84014316
• OSTI ID: 6893196
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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