Field enhanced microwave breakdown in a plasma limiter

John J. Mankowski; David Hemmert; Andreas Neuber; Hermann Krompholz

doi:10.1109/TPS.2002.1003944

Field enhanced microwave breakdown in a plasma limiter

John J. Mankowski, David Hemmert, Andreas Neuber, Hermann Krompholz

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

A new type of plasma limiter is being developed which can turn on in less than 1 ns. The approach taken is to initiate streamer breakdown via a micron radius needle tip. Images were taken of the gap region in Argon at several pressures in order to investigate the role of the tip region.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	102-103
Number of pages	2
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Volume	30
Issue number	1 I
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2002.1003944
State	Published - Feb 2002

Keywords

High-power microwaves
Optical imaging
Plasma limiter
Ultrawide-band

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