Release Time:2019-03-11  Hits:

Indexed by: Journal Article

Date of Publication: 2009-01-01

Journal: 14th International Symposium on Electromagnetic Launch Technology

Included Journals: CPCI-S、EI、SCIE

Volume: 45

Issue: 1

Page Number: 564-567

ISSN: 0018-9464

Key Words: Field-breakdown TVS; lifetime; operational characteristics; trigger

Abstract: Triggered vacuum switch (TVS) is one of the important switch apparatuses in the fields of high-pulsed power system. Its working lifetime is due to trigger failure of the trigger pin, so the parameters of trigger source become the key of lifetime dilatation. A sample of field-breakdown TVS coated with nothing is fabricated, which has much longer lifetime than the TVS coated with trigger materials, but more trouble in the trigger process. A trigger system and a LC test circuit are designed to find the operational characteristics of the TVS sample. The trigger system generates a negative pulse with peak value of 30 kV/500 A, the system delay and its scatter is controlled in 70-100 mu s, and the triggered rate of success reaches 96 %. Test results show that the sample has a wide working voltage range of 0.3-40 kV. The delay of its switching-on is stable in hundreds of nanoseconds, which will be reduced with the increase of main gap voltage. The arcing is steady in the conducting process, keeping arc voltage at 20 V approximately. The arc current drops to zero as current zero is approached, leading to a voltage remained in the capacitance.