A high voltage split source voltage multiplier with increased output voltage

Building on the Half-Wave Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier, a topology is proposed that consists of several voltage multiplying sections fed separately at their inputs and whose output voltages are summated across the load. The proposed topology can attain over m times higher voltage gain (m being the splitting level). The theory is supported by simulations and experiments. For instance, in a simple experiment, the load voltage has increased from 2.8 kV to 6.6 kV due to splitting the circuit into 3 sections (m=3).