Solid State Pulsed Power Electronics

High-Voltage Pulse Generators for Electroporation Applications: A Systematic Review

“…Solid-state switches have features such as reliability, smaller footprint, high repetition rate, long lifetime, and costeffectiveness. The use of solid-state switches makes the pulsed power supply smaller and more efficient because it benefits from power electronics controlling techniques [10], [24], [43], [44], and [47].…”

“…12(b), in [58], the load is located differentially between the outputs of two Boost converters which are so-called front-to-front. This structure has the ability to generate bipolar pulses, but its operation depends on the use of passive elements [47] and requires proper parameter selection [3].…”

Design of High Voltage Full-Bridge Inverter Using Marx Derived Switches

“…1(c)) to obtain a series stack of switching cells for positive HV pulses. This technique provides HV handling using U LV (kV) rated semiconductor devices [3].…”

“…This paper proposes a full-bridge inverter with four HV switches using IGBT, each one made of switching cells derived from the Marx generator concept [3], able to balance the voltages in the series cell stacks of each HV switch with efficiency. Performance evaluation is done using a typical inductive load at the output of the HV inverter and the voltage balancing is maintained, even with 10 % tolerance in the capacitor cells.…”

Bidirectional DC-DC Converter Using Modular Marx Power Switches and Series/Parallel Inductor for High-Voltage Applications

“…In this paper, the proposed power electronic converter is a bidirectional non isolated half-bridge DC-DC converter based on buck-boost converter, [3]. To make the converter able to high-voltage applications, it uses a series-stacked semiconductors based on solid-state Marx generator concept, [4]. Using a Marx generator as a series switch, allows the use of low-voltage semiconductors and arrange the overall structure of the DC-DC converter with modular cells, which leads to compactness, low weight, low cost and portability of these power converters, [4].…”