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Design and Testing of a Surface Switch for the Dynamic Load Current Multiplier on the SPHINX Microsecond LTD Driver

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SPHINX is a microsecond linear transformer driver located at Atomic Energy Comission (CEA) Gramat (France), which can deliver a current pulse of 6 MA within 800 ns in a Z -pinch load. Using the concept of the dynamic load current multiplier (DLCM), which was proposed by Chuvatin, we expect to increase the load current above 6 MA, while decreasing its rise time to ~ 300 ns. The DLCM developed by the CEA Gramat and International Technologies for High Pulsed Power (ITHPP) is a compact system made up of concentric electrodes (autotransformer), a dynamic flux extruder (cylindrical wire array), a vacuum convolute (eight post-hole rods), and a closing switch (compact vacuum surface switch). The latter is a key component of the system, which is used to prevent the current from flowing into the load until the inductance builds up due to the implosion of the wire array. This paper presents the design and testing of the DLCM surface switch, resulting from both electrostatic simulations and experiments on the SPHINX generator. These studies, carried out either with or without load (open circuit), were valuable for a first experimental evaluation of the DLCM scheme in a microsecond regime and provided detailed information on the surface switch behavior.
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hal-02892108 , version 1 (07-07-2020)

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Thomas Maysonnave, Frédéric Bayol, Gauthier Demol, Thierry d'Almeida, Alain Morell, et al.. Design and Testing of a Surface Switch for the Dynamic Load Current Multiplier on the SPHINX Microsecond LTD Driver. 4th Euro-Asian Pulsed-Power Conference / 19th International Conference on High-Power Particle Beams (EAPPC / BEAMS), Sep 2012, Karlsruhe, Germany. ⟨hal-02892108⟩
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