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Cutoff of the current in plasma opening switches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 November 2012

SERGEY V. LOGINOV
SERGEY V. LOGINOV*
Affiliation:
Institute of High Current Electronics SB RAS, Tomsk 634055, Russia ([email protected])
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Abstract

The paper considers the erosion mechanism of operation of nano- and microsecond plasma opening switches (POSs). For this purpose, postulates of the well-known erosion model of the POS operation are reviewed and some remarks on its individual statements are discussed. A voltage scaling for a nanosecond switch with rarefied plasma (~1013 cm−3) is derived. It is shown that the peak voltage across the nanosecond switch on its opening is proportional to the switch conduction current. The formation of an erosion gap in a microsecond switch with high-density plasma (~1015 cm−3) is put to phenomenological analysis and a voltage scaling for the switch is obtained. It is found that in the microsecond switch, unlike the nanosecond switch, the peak voltage is inversely proportional to the switch conduction current.

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 79 , Issue 3 , June 2013 , pp. 321 - 326
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 

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