Study on pseudospark switch with high repetition frequency with
double-pulse triggering
Abstract
The pseudospark switch works in the left branch of Paschen curve with
low gas pressure, which has the advantage of short electrode breakdown
time (<10ns), large pulse current (>100kA), and
long lifetime, etc. High pulse repetition frequency (PRF) pseudospark
switch has important applications in food processing, sewage treatment,
high energy laser system, sonar syste, and other fields, the pseudospark
switch with a PRF of kHz-level is needed. This paper focuses on the
pseudospark switch with double-pulse trigger structure, and the
corresponding relationship between the two trigger voltages and current
is calculated respectively, and the influence of the two pulses on the
trigger process is analyzed. Then the pseudospark switch with this
structure is tested with the anode voltage of 10kV for different voltage
and gas pressure. The results show that the minimum trigger voltage is
only 100V, and the switch can work stably with high repetition
frequency.