A review of high-power switch technology

Burkes, T. R.; Craig, J. P.; Hagler, M.O.; Kristiansen, M.; Portnoy, W.M.

doi:10.1109/t-ed.1979.19621

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“…Considering VI ratings, medium voltage DCCBs without series connection of active switches are viable. For a more detailed review of DCSs, the reader is referred to [30], [31].…”

Section: Review Of Discharge Closing Switch Technologymentioning

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Enhanced Active Resonant DC Circuit Breakers Based on Discharge Closing Switches

Augustin

Becerra

Nee

2021

IEEE Trans. Power Delivery

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“…Considering VI ratings, medium voltage DCCBs without series connection of active switches are viable. For a more detailed review of DCSs, the reader is referred to [30], [31].…”

Section: Review Of Discharge Closing Switch Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhanced Active Resonant DC Circuit Breakers Based on Discharge Closing Switches

Augustin

Becerra

Nee

2021

IEEE Trans. Power Delivery

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“…In the references [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] there is a lot of more detailed information about the history of high power switch development during the recent years. …”

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Do gas-filled switches still have a future?

Frank

Lee

Petzenhauser

et al. 2007

2007 16th IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference

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In the first part of the paper in a short review the history of the development of gas-filled high power switches is described, including all the special switching devices, which had been proposed to overcome specific shortcomings of the basic configurations of gas-filled devices like spark gaps, cold and hot cathode thyratrons and triggered vacuum tubes. The second part treats in detail the most serious problem for gas-filled switches to be still competitive with solid-state switches: Lifetime limitation by electrode erosion. The pseudospark discharge as low-pressure cold cathode device is chosen to illustrate the most important mechanisms, which contribute to electrode erosion or are related to cathode emission processes in general. As next subject of the manuscript some promising new developments in the area of gas-filled switches are described. Those obviously show that there is still a variety of applications for them, which guarantee a bright future. Based upon the results of the previous part in the last part, the pros and cons are summarized with the goal to comment the on-going process of substitution or not-substitution of gas-filled switches by solid-state devices. Finally the physical and technological limits are listed together with an outlook to future chances with the development of both types of high power switches.

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“…Monte Carlo simulation has an advantage over the Boltzmann equation approach [l] : it is relatively easy to implement a six-dimensional (6D) simulation (3D in space, 3D in velocity) subject to complicated boundary conditions. This type of simulation techniques can also be applied to other areas which include plasma processing [6], high power lasers [7], high power switches [8] and solid state devices [9].…”

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Concurrent and vectorized Monte Carlo simulation of the evolution of an assembly of particles increasing in number

Wang

1989

Proceedings of the 1989 ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing - Supercomputing '89

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ParallelMonte Carlo techniques for simulating the evolution of an assembly of charged particles interacting with a background gas medium under the influence of the electrical field are presented. This simulation problem has inherent parallelism in nature. All the particles can be traced independently in a short time interval. We have overcome three major difficulties:1) the number of particles to be simulated is increasing over time due to the ionization process; 2) the conditional branching statements do not inhibit multiprocessing through proper manual program tuning;3) concurrency and vectorization are fully utilized through the new parallelized Monte Carlo method. The shared-memory vector multiprocessor Alliant FX/80 has been used for performance measurements. Significant speedup has been achieved.

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A review of high-power switch technology

Cited by 23 publications

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Enhanced Active Resonant DC Circuit Breakers Based on Discharge Closing Switches

Enhanced Active Resonant DC Circuit Breakers Based on Discharge Closing Switches

Do gas-filled switches still have a future?

Concurrent and vectorized Monte Carlo simulation of the evolution of an assembly of particles increasing in number

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