@article{3afa88f9b94142ef9bd08148f40f315e,
title = "A review of catastrophic electromagnetic breakdown for short pulse widths",
abstract = "This paper reviews the experimental research accomplished to date relating to catastrophic electromagnetic breakdown in certain media that are interesting for high voltage, short temporal pulse width pulsers. The authors begin with the classic work of Felsenthal and Proud and follow experimental results into the present day. The paper considers not only the experimental results of short pulse radio frequency breakdown but also th e relationship with long pulse RF breakdown. The paper presents some recent measurements as well as reviewing the previous work performed in our laboratories and elsewhere.",
author = "Agee, {Forrest J.} and Scholfield, {David W.} and Copeland, {Richard P.} and Martin, {T. H.} and Carroll, {James J.} and Mankowski, {John J.} and M. Kristiansen and Hatfield, {Lynn L.}",
note = "Funding Information: The present interest in ultra-wide band emitters is in a different temporal regime that corresponds to microwave frequencies rather than the HF to UHF frequencies characteristic of EMP. The higher frequencies contained in the pulses provide opportunities for applications that include novel radar systems to provide more information than just range and bearing. A side effect is that this development moves some of the same problems encountered earlier in pulser, antenna feeds, and antennas into a new parameter space in which there is relatively little published data on RF and electrical breakdown. Some of the new sources, including the Phillips Laboratory Hindenberg series of hydrogen gas switched pulsers have hydrogen at hundreds of atmospheres of pressure at the switch. These must be designed to transmit sub- nanosecond pulses to an antenna at atmospheric pressure without distortion of the pulse parameters, in particular the rise time of the pulse. A research effort is underway at the Phillips Laboratory and at a number of universities related to research problems in high power microwaves and sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. This paper reviews the situation as we know it for RF and electrical breakdown in the short pulse regime characteristic of ultra-wide band high power microwave sources. We anticipate that the data in this regime will increase as the technology advances, and as other researchers become aware of our interest in it. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 1996 SPIE. All rights reserved.; null ; Conference date: 04-08-1996 Through 09-08-1996",
year = "1996",
month = oct,
day = "28",
doi = "10.1117/12.255410",
language = "English",
volume = "2843",
pages = "172--182",
journal = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
issn = "0277-786X",
}