Solid-state pulsed power systems

Pulsed Power Systems for Application of Pulsed Electric Fields in the Food Industry

“…for more than 30 years. Whereas solid-state switches for pulsed power applications that are based on semiconductor components have been developed only recently (Gaudreau et al, 1998). However, the performance of single components in terms of peak power and reliability has increased within the last few years.…”

Development of 22 kV, 1 kHz rep-rated solid-state pulser based on Linear Transformer Driver topology

“…With future systems requiring higher voltage and power, the tube technology and thyratron based modulators are falling short of the system requirements. Solid state modulators [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] are filling in the void and are increasingly viewed as an attractive alternative to vacuum tube or thyratron based PFN systems. With a given target of 15 kV, 250 mJ/pulse, 1 kHz rep-rate, LTD topology was adopted to achieve the same.…”

Solid state marx modulator with blumlein stack for bipolar pulse generation

“…The most frequent solid-state method to generate bipolar pulses includes the use of two independent dc high-voltage, HV, power supplies, respectively, for positive and negative pulses [7][8][9], or the utilization of Marx generators [10,11]. Topologies brought from dc-dc converters, commonly used in the power electronics field, such as the full-bridge, halfbridge and multilevel converters are, also, applied [12][13][14].…”