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TY - CONF
AU - del Barrio Montañés, A.A.
AU - Dutheil, Y.
AU - Kramer, T.
AU - Sack, M.
AU - Senaj, V.
ED - Zimmermann, Frank
ED - Tanaka, Hitoshi
ED - Sudmuang, Porntip
ED - Klysubun, Prapong
ED - Sunwong, Prapaiwan
ED - Chanwattana, Thakonwat
ED - Petit-Jean-Genaz, Christine
ED - Schaa, Volker R.W.
TI - Ultra-Fast Generator for Impact Ionization Triggering
J2 - Proc. of IPAC2022, Bangkok, Thailand, 12-17 June 2022
CY - Bangkok, Thailand
T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference
T3 - 13
LA - english
AB - Impact ionization triggering can be successfully applied to standard thyristors, thus boosting their dI/dt capability by up to 1000x. This groundbreaking triggering requires applying significant overvoltage on the anode-cathode of thyristor with a slew rate > 1kV/ns. Compact pulse generators based on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components would allow the spread of this technology into numerous applications, including fast kicker generators for particle accelerators. In our approach, the beginning of the triggering chain is a HV SiC MOS with an ultra-fast super-boosting gate driver. The super boosting of a 1.7kV rated SiC MOS allows to reduce the MOS rise time by a factor of > 25 (datasheet tr = §I{20}{ns} vs. measured tr < 800ps, resulting in an output voltage slew rate > 1kV/ns and an amplitude > 1kV. Additional boosting is obtained by a Marx generator with GaAs diodes, reaching an output voltage slew rate > 11kV/ns. The final stage will be a Marx generator with medium size thyristors triggered in impact ionization mode with sufficient voltage and current rating necessary for the triggering of a big thyristor. This paper presents the impact ionization triggering of a small size thyristor.
PB - JACoW Publishing
CP - Geneva, Switzerland
SP - 2872
EP - 2874
KW - pulsed-power
KW - high-voltage
KW - cathode
KW - plasma
KW - electronics
DA - 2022/07
PY - 2022
SN - 2673-5490
SN - 978-3-95450-227-1
DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-THPOTK044
UR - https://jacow.org/ipac2022/papers/thpotk044.pdf
ER -