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Gas Discharge Closing Switches

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Gerhard Schaefer

    1. Late of Polytechnic University, Farmingdale, USA

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  2. M. Kristiansen

    1. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA

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  3. A. Guenther

    1. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA

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Part of the book series: Advances in Pulsed Power Technology (APUT, volume 2)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. General Switching Considerations

    1. General Switching Considerations

      • T. R. Burkes
      Pages 1-13

  3. Electrical Breakdown in Gases in Electric Fields

    1. Electrical Breakdown in Gases in Electric Fields

      • E. E. Kunhardt
      Pages 15-44

  4. Gas Filled Spark Gaps

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. Self Breakdown Gaps

      • W. C. Nunnally, A. L. Donaldson
      Pages 47-62

    3. Trigatron Spark Gaps

      • P. F. Williams, F. E. Peterkin
      Pages 63-84

    4. Field Distortion Three Electrode Gaps

      • Gerhard Schaefer
      Pages 85-123

    5. Electron Beam Triggering of Gas Filled Spark Gaps

      • Yonhua Tzeng, E. E. Kunhardt
      Pages 125-144

    6. Laser Triggering of Gas Filled Spark Gaps

      • P. F. Williams, A. H. Guenther
      Pages 145-187

  5. Vacuum Switches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-192
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    2. Electrical Breakdown in Vacuum

      • G. A. Farrall
      Pages 193-250

    3. Recovery of Vacuum Spark Gaps

      • H. Craig Miller
      Pages 251-270

    4. Triggered Vacuum Switch Construction and Performance

      • J. E. Thompson
      Pages 271-285

  6. Repetitive Operation and Lifetime Considerations for Spark Gaps

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 287-288
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    2. Repetitive Spark Gap Switches

      • M. T. Buttram, S. Sampayan
      Pages 289-324

    3. Lifetime Considerations

      • Anthony L. Donaldson
      Pages 325-344

  7. Surface Discharge Switches

    1. Surface Discharge Switches

      • H. M. von Bergmann
      Pages 345-373

  8. Thyratrons

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 375-377
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    2. Design Principles and Operation Characteristics

      • John Creedon
      Pages 379-407

    3. Hydrogen Thyratrons and their Applications as Developed in the UK

      • H. Menown, C. A. Pirrie
      Pages 409-427
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About this book

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 application of pulsed power. It is, in fact, the application of pulsed power technology to which this series of texts will be focused. Pulsed power in today's broader sense means "special power" as opposed to the tra­ ditional situation of high voltage impulse issues related to the utility industry. Since the pulsed power field is primarily application driven, it has principally an engineering flavor. Today' s applications span those from materials processing, such as metal forming by pulsed magnetic fields, to other varied applications, such as psy­ chedelic strobe lights or radar modulators. Very high peak power applications occur in research for inertial confinement fusion, the Strategic Defense Initiative and other historical defense uses. lri fact it is from this latter direction that pulsed power has real­ ized explosive growth over the past half century. Early thrusts were in electrically powered systems that simulated the environment or effects of nuclear weapons detonation. More recently it is being utilized as prime power sources for directed energy weapons, such as lasers, microwaves, particle beam weapons, and even mass drivers (kinetic energy weapons).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Late of Polytechnic University, Farmingdale, USA

    Gerhard Schaefer

  • Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA

    M. Kristiansen

  • Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA

    A. Guenther

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gas Discharge Closing Switches

  • Editors: Gerhard Schaefer, M. Kristiansen, A. Guenther

  • Series Title: Advances in Pulsed Power Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2130-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-43619-2Published: 31 May 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-2132-1Published: 29 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-2130-7Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 570

  • Topics: Electrical Engineering

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