Plastic Laminate Pulsed Power Development 2000-01-3613
The desire to move high-energy Pulsed Power systems from the laboratory to practical field systems requires the development of compact lightweight drivers. This paper concerns an effort to develop such a system based on a plastic laminate strip Blumlein as the final pulse shaping stage for a 600 kV, 50ns, 5-ohm driver.
A lifetime and breakdown study conducted with small-area samples identified Kapton sheet impregnated with Propylene Carbonate as the best material combination of those evaluated. The program has successfully demonstrated techniques for folding large area systems into compact geometry's and vacuum impregnating the laminate in the folded systems. The major operational challenges encountered revolve around edge grading and low inductance, low impedance switching. The design iterations and lessons learned will be discussed.
A multistage prototype testing program has demonstrated 600kV operation on a short 6ns line. Full-scale prototypes are currently undergoing development and testing.
Author(s):
Jeff A. Alexander, Steven Shope, Ron Pate, Larry Rinehart, John Jojola, Mitchel Ruebush, Wayne Crowe, Joseph Lundstrom, Talbot Smith, David Zagar, Kenneth Prestwich
Affiliated:
Sandia National Laboratories, Compa, Ktech, Consultants
Pages: 9
Event:
Power Systems Conference
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Also in:
Proceedings of the SAE Power Systems Conference 2000-P-359, SAE 2000 Transactions Journal of Aerospace-V109-1
Related Topics:
Plastics
Vehicle drivers
Lightweighting
Vacuum
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