Low-pressure discharges with hollow cathode and hollow anode and their applications

YD Korolev, NN Koval - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The review relates to low-pressure discharges with a hollow cathode and a hollow anode.
The term'low pressure'implies that a neutral particle density is extremely small and the …

A sealed-off double-gap pseudospark switch and its performance analysis

RP Lamba, UN Pal, BL Meena… - Plasma Sources Science …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reports the development of a sealed-off double-gap pseudospark switch and its
performance analysis. The modular pseudospark geometry has two gaps that are separated …

Nanosecond triggering for sealed-off cold cathode thyratrons with a trigger unit based on an auxiliary glow discharge

YD Korolev, NV Landl, VG Geyman… - … on Plasma Science, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper deals with the investigations of ceramic-metal sealed-off pseudospark switches
with an auxiliary glow discharge in the trigger unit. The switches are produced commercially …

Hollow-cathode glow discharge in a trigger unit of pseudospark switch

YD Korolev, NV Landl, VG Geyman, OB Frants… - Physics of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
This paper deals with the investigation of the sealed-off cold-cathode thyratron
(pseudospark switch) with a trigger unit that uses a low-current auxiliary glow discharge. As …

Study of cold-cathode thyratron triggering stability at high anode voltages

D Korolev, NV Landl, VG Geyman, OB Frants… - Plasma Physics …, 2018 - Springer
The delay time to breakdown of a cold-cathode thyratron with a trigger unit based on an
auxiliary steady-state low-current glow discharge was studied experimentally. The device …

Pseudospark Discharge-Based Electron Beam Sources: A Review

M Sarkar, N Kumar - IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pseudospark (PS) discharge-based electron beam sources are capable of generating high
current density, high energy, high emittance, and high brightness self-focused electron …

Performance of a multigap multiaperture pseudospark switch in series with the saturable inductor

A Mishra, S Misra, RP Lamba, AR Tillu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, experimental investigation has been performed for discharge characteristics of
a multigap multiaperture (MGMA) configuration of pseudospark switch (PSS) with a …

A Novel Multi-Aperture r-θ Configuration-Based Pseudospark-Driven Electron Beam Source

P Unadkat, S Jain, N Kumar - IEEE Electron Device Letters, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The simultaneous generation of an electron beam with high energy and high current density
with a high-fill factor is challenging for a backward wave oscillator (BWO) and other linear …

New design and construction of high-voltage high-current pseudospark switch

KH Lateef, BH Hamad… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A pseudospark switch with two hollow electrodes separated by a ceramic disc in between
with a trigger plug inserted near the hole has been fabricated, and it was successfully …

Methods of triggering for the cold-cathode thyratron with nanosecond operation stability

GA Argunov, NV Landl, YD Korolev… - Journal of Physics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The sealed-off cold-cathode thyratron TPI1-10k/50 type with a newly developed trigger unit
based on auxiliary glow discharge is investigated. As distinct from the commercially …