@article{d9e194bbd6e342978985a13d7cff5dc6,
title = "Coreless Fast Pulsed-Power Drivers",
abstract = "Linear transformer drivers can generate mega-amperes in hundreds of nanoseconds, allowing to produce matter under extreme conditions and study it in a laboratory setting. Drivers using this technology are more compact than Marx-banks drivers but have very similar characteristics. The key component is the magnetic core that allows to charge the system in parallel, during the dc phase when the core inductance is an ignorable part of the circuit, and to discharge it in series, during the pulsed phase when the core provides inductive isolation. However, the magnetic core increases the weight, the cost of the system, and the footprint of the device. In this article, we show how the magnetic core can be replaced by an insulator break, providing capacitive isolation instead. This approach reduces both weight and footprint of the system while minimizing current losses compared with a system with cores or no isolation whatsoever.",
keywords = "Linear transformer driver (LTD), pulsed power",
author = "Gourdain, {P. A.} and M. Evans and P. Efthimion and R. Ellis and W. Fox and Hasson, {H. R.} and H. Ji and Shapovalov, {R. V.} and Young, {J. R.} and I. West-Abdallah",
note = "Funding Information: Manuscript received December 13, 2020; revised April 29, 2021; accepted May 26, 2021. Date of publication June 22, 2021; date of current version July 22, 2021. This work was supported in part by the NSF/DOE Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering via a DOE Office of Science, Fusion Energy Sciences Award under Grant DE-SC0016252, in part by the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) DOE Contract under Grant DE-AC02-09CH11466, in part by the NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Award under Grant PHY-1725178, in part by the NSF CAREER Award under Grant PHY-1943939, and in part by the University of Rochester. The review of this article was arranged by Senior Editor R. P. Joshi. (Corresponding author: P.-A. Gourdain.) P.-A. Gourdain, M. Evans, H. R. Hasson, J. R. Young, and I. West-Abdallah are with the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA (e-mail: gourdain@pas.rochester.edu). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 1973-2012 IEEE.",
year = "2021",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1109/TPS.2021.3086322",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "49",
pages = "2161--2165",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science",
issn = "0093-3813",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
number = "7",
}