Title :
Power Flow Management in a Diode-Directed Solid-State Marx Modulator
Author :
Dale, G.E. ; Kirbie, H.C.
Author_Institution :
Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM
Abstract :
The increasing capability of solid-state components has resulted in their expanded use in high-power modulators. One concern in using solid-state switches in high-power modulators is the vulnerability of these switches to over-voltage transients. Protecting the switches is one of the many design challenges of solid-state modulators. Diode-directed Marx modulators have an ability to protect solid-state switches from over-voltage transients by routing the transient energy around the switches and returning it to the stage capacitors. The inherent switch protection capability of a diode-directed Marx modulator is described in this paper and experimental results are shown
Keywords :
load flow; modulators; overvoltage protection; pulsed power supplies; pulsed power switches; diode-directed solid-state Marx modulator; over-voltage transient protection; power flow management; solid-state switch; stage capacitor; transient energy routing; Amplitude modulation; Diodes; Energy management; Inductors; Load flow; Protection; Pulse width modulation; Solid state circuits; Space vector pulse width modulation; Switches;
Conference_Titel :
Power Modulator Symposium, 2006. Conference Record of the 2006 Twenty-Seventh International
Conference_Location :
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0018-X
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0019-8
DOI :
10.1109/MODSYM.2006.365257
