The printed circuit board Rogowski coils for plasma current measurements on the J-TEXT tokamak

Abstract

Compared with the conventional Rogowski coils made by winding wire loops, a printed circuit board (PCB) based on Rogowski coils has some favourable advantages for current measurements, such as large effective area, good linearity, high frequency response, precise geometry and thin profile. This type of Rogowski coil has been widely applied in electrical systems as the current sensor. Nevertheless, the PCB Rogowski coils are introduced for the first time to measure the plasma current on the Joint Texas Experimental Tokamak (J-TEXT). The measurements have shown that this novel PCB Rogowski coil works perfectly and is very suitable for studies of disruption, equilibrium reconstruction, etc.