P. Iyengar, J. Fletcher, D. Bittlestone, S. Finney, M. Sinclair
{"title":"Enhanced MOSFET gate driver for pulsed power IVA module","authors":"P. Iyengar, J. Fletcher, D. Bittlestone, S. Finney, M. Sinclair","doi":"10.1109/PPC.2011.6191667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PPC.2011.6191667","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the design of a MOSFET gate driver using an inductor based current source topology, which enables repetitive ultra-fast switching and reproducible pulses. Optimal design layout and grounding methods have been employed to minimise the parasitic inductances which can significantly limit the switching performance. The gate oxide is protected from overvoltage using TVS diodes without affecting the slew rate of the gate signal. The gate driver circuit was tested with upto three MOSFET devices in parallel. The experimental results demonstrate rise times of ∼ 4 ns and fall times of ∼ 9 ns. The capability of a single driver to switch multiple MOSFETs without compromising on their performance is also demonstrated and further discussed in this paper.","PeriodicalId":331835,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117081008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Boundary element method for solution of 3-D magnetic fields","authors":"M. Ingber, G. Kiuttu, J. Ingber, B. Smith","doi":"10.1109/PPC.2011.6191461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PPC.2011.6191461","url":null,"abstract":"The boundary element method (BEM) has been established as an effective means for magnetostatic analysis. Direct BEM formulations for the magnetic vector potential have been developed over the past 20 years. There is a less well known direct boundary integral equation (BIE) for the magnetic flux density. On first inspection, the ancillary boundary integral equation for the magnetic flux density appears to be homogeneous, but it can be shown that the equation is well-posed and non-homogeneous using appropriate boundary conditions. In this paper we derive the BIE for the magnetic induction and show how it can be used to determine the surface fields on good conductors using an auxiliary constraint given by the integral form of Ampere's Law.","PeriodicalId":331835,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128261200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Yano, C. Matsumoto, N. Tanaka, T. Oide, K. Abe, S. Katsuki, H. Akiyama
{"title":"Gene analysis of HeLa cells subjected to intense burst sinusoidal electric fields","authors":"M. Yano, C. Matsumoto, N. Tanaka, T. Oide, K. Abe, S. Katsuki, H. Akiyama","doi":"10.1109/PPC.2011.6191583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PPC.2011.6191583","url":null,"abstract":"Intense pulsed electrics field are one of the agents to give physical stresses to biological systems which are the complex of dielectric materials. We have been using an intense burst sinusoidal electric field (IBSEF) as a narrow band field to discuss the biological effects of the field in the frequency domain. Our previous study demonstrated that the enhancement of proliferation activity of HeLa S3 cells is induced by the application of non-thermal, IBSEF with amplitudes of 300 kV/m and with frequencies between 3 and 100 MHz. Moreover, the application of the smaller number of the pulses enhanced the proliferation activity, whereas the cells were likely to be killed by the larger number of the pulses. According to calculation of the electric field distribution over the cell under AC field, the field strength of cell membrane is decreased with increasing the frequency in the range more than 1 MHz. The range of frequencies between 3–10 MHz, the distributed field strength on nuclear membrane became the maximum. This is because of the decrease in the electrical impedance of the membrane, which can be regarded as a dielectric film. The frequency dependence implies the proliferation activity might be associated with the electric field at the cell membrane and nuclear membrane. Here, we analyze expression of RNA gene related to cell growth including cell cycle and describe the mechanism of the enhancement of proliferation activity by means of reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assays.","PeriodicalId":331835,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference","volume":"176 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129244751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Three-dimensional electromagnetic modeling of composite dielectric materials","authors":"K. O'connor, R. Curry","doi":"10.1109/PPC.2011.6191429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PPC.2011.6191429","url":null,"abstract":"When manufacturing composite dielectric materials with various shapes, sizes, dielectric properties, and amounts of each constituent element, it is beneficial to predict the effective dielectric constant and the distribution of electric fields within the composite. A three-dimensional electromagnetic model has recently been developed at the University of Missouri to aid in this analysis. CST EM Studio, which specializes in three-dimensional electromagnetic simulation, was chosen for the simulation environment. A custom-developed software program automates the construction and electromagnetic analysis of the composite material within CST EM Studio. The program virtually constructs a composite with up to thousands of distinct composite elements placed in a quasi-random arrangement according to user-defined input parameters. The program provides a means of efficiently and accurately modeling composite systems without manually creating the high number of individual composite elements. The program enables user specification over the simulation parameters and automated analysis of the simulation results through a user interface. The dielectric constant of each composite element, the loading percentages, and multiple physical particle parameters, including the shape, size, and density, are user-defined. The effective dielectric constant of the composite is determined by analyzing the capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor made with the virtual composite material. Additionally, the distribution of electric fields through the composite elements and at potential triple points can be analyzed for potential sites of failure. A detailed description of the modeling method and program is provided. Commonly-used equations for the effective dielectric constant of composites are introduced, and comparisons are presented between the simulated effective dielectric constant and the values calculated from those equations for various particle loading percentages. Lastly, examples of how the electric field is distributed through the composite structure are included.","PeriodicalId":331835,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124635802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Yamanaka, A. Fujita, K. Teranishi, N. Shimomura
{"title":"Fundamental study to apply the pulsed power technology on the biomass production","authors":"M. Yamanaka, A. Fujita, K. Teranishi, N. Shimomura","doi":"10.1109/PPC.2011.6191591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PPC.2011.6191591","url":null,"abstract":"The depletion of fossil fuel is a serious global problem. The development of new biomass fuel, which is not made from foods as corn and sugar cane, is an urgent necessity. For the easiness of the cultivation and the richness for containing fuel, hydrophytic microalga is expected as a crude material for biomass fuel. The manufacturing process is sketchily classified into cultivation, extraction of oil component and refinement of fuel. The manufacturing process without cultivation is, however, inefficient at present. This study applies pulsed power technology to the production process of biomass fuel made from microalga, which is the cultivation and extraction process. Nanosecond pulsed electric fields are applied to the microalga to anticipate increment of cultivation speed and modification of component. In this experiment, the alga density of large number of treated samples was higher than that of negative control samples after seven days of the treatment. The technology to open up pores on cell membrane is called electroporation, and it is important cell control technology in the biotechnology. In another experiment, pulsed power was applied to the alga to improve the efficiency of component extracting process with electroporation. The pulsed powers with different pulse length were used to consider the effect.","PeriodicalId":331835,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130299805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Application based general scaling in railguns","authors":"V. Sung, W. Odendaal","doi":"10.1109/PPC.2011.6191544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PPC.2011.6191544","url":null,"abstract":"When it comes to scaling railguns, there is no best or one-size-fits-all methodology. It is important for the researcher to be able to choose the appropriate scaling methods to best match the application in an experiment. This paper is an overview of railgun scaling methods; the generic railgun equations are tailored to obtain suitable methods for applications involving circuits, kinematics, fields, thermal control, and mechanics. These methods can be applied to the power supply of the gun, the gun itself, or both depending on the nature of the investigation. The scaling methods of previous literature are reviewed and expanded upon, and scaling based on circuit modeling is presented and simulated.","PeriodicalId":331835,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference","volume":"189 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123474992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rep-rated operation of a modular, compact HV-capacitor charger","authors":"T. Vollmer, M. Giesselmann","doi":"10.1109/PPC.2011.6191687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PPC.2011.6191687","url":null,"abstract":"We are reporting results on a compact high voltage capacitor charger with modular topology for rep-rated operation. This modular topology utilizes synchronized hard-switching H-Bridge inverters. Each current-mode controlled inverter is fed into the highly coupled primaries of a high frequency transformer with a nano-crystalline core. This charging system with two synchronized H-Bridges has reached voltages of over 20 kV with power outputs in excess of 10 kW. Rep-rated operation along with system efficiency has been explored with this modular topology system. Burst mode operation has achieved rep rates close to 20 Hz. Overall system efficiencies have been measured at nearly 80%.","PeriodicalId":331835,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123646809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Stephens, A. Neuber, J. Dickens, M. Kristiansen
{"title":"Compact electro-explosive fuse optimization for a helical flux compression generator","authors":"J. Stephens, A. Neuber, J. Dickens, M. Kristiansen","doi":"10.1109/PPC.2011.6191477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PPC.2011.6191477","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the optimization of a compact electro-explosive fuse designed for the power conditioning system to be driven by a helical flux compression generator (HFCG). An electro-explosive fuse interrupts the current flow from the HFCG through a storage inductor on a 50 to 100 ns timescale inducing a voltage large enough to close a peaking gap, which commutates the energy in the storage inductor into a 20 Ohm load at voltage levels above 200 kV. Experimental data has revealed that electro-explosive fuses with wires in closer proximity to one another have consistently produced lower pulsed voltages than fuses with larger wire spacings. This paper addresses possible factors that might contribute to this drop in performance. An electro-magnetic field solver is used to model the current redistribution in the fuse wires. The experimentally observed performance of compact fuses with varying wire spacings is presented.","PeriodicalId":331835,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference","volume":"248 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121428673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mark T. Muffoletto, A. Upia, T. DiSanto, D. Muffoletto, Kevin M. Burk, J. Zirnheld, H. Moore, Hardev Singh, P. Haney
{"title":"Effects of inductance on the metallization removal of exploding films","authors":"Mark T. Muffoletto, A. Upia, T. DiSanto, D. Muffoletto, Kevin M. Burk, J. Zirnheld, H. Moore, Hardev Singh, P. Haney","doi":"10.1109/PPC.2011.6191462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PPC.2011.6191462","url":null,"abstract":"During the electrical explosion of a thin metallized film, the metallization layer is heated rapidly up to vaporization where the film bursts and the metal layer is ejected from the substrate. It has been shown that adding inductance in the dis-charge path changes the characteristics of the explosion; most notably it alters the energy transfer efficiency. This work sets out to explore the metallization removed as a function of in-ductance, namely how much of the metallized surface is liber-ated during the explosion of the film. An image processing technique is used to quantify the metallization removal and the results of this effort are discussed herein.","PeriodicalId":331835,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference","volume":"41 21","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113936735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A tunable metamaterial-based passive limiter for protection from HPM and UWB sources","authors":"P. Kelly, J. Mankowski, M. Kristiansen","doi":"10.1109/PPC.2011.6191453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PPC.2011.6191453","url":null,"abstract":"The development of a high power in-line limiter utilizing varactor-loaded metamaterial structures is presented. A metamaterial structure is an artificial structure engineered to provide electromagnetic properties not available in nature, more explicitly defined as a material having simultaneously negative permittivity and negative permeability. A singly-negative material (SNG) structure, the split-ring resonator (SRR), is a negative permeability material which acts as a notch filter with resonant frequency f0. The resonant frequency of the SRR filter yields itself to tuning since the capacitance between the SRR and transmission lines is easily changeable through the use of varactors. At nominal power levels, f0 is significantly offset from the receiving frequency such that the receiving frequency is unattenuated. When an in-band high power microwave (HPM) is incident upon the filter, a DC bias is applied to several varactors and shifts the resonant frequency of the filter to that of the receiving frequency due to the change in capacitance of the varactors. This effectively attenuates the incident HPM. The filter uses a microwave rectifying circuit to extract a DC voltage from the in-band HPM, which serves as the DC bias voltage across the varactors. Ansoft's HFSS was used to accurately model and design the SRR structure to minimize the E-field and maximize resonant effects. Both high and low power continuous wave testing verified minimal insertion loss as well as verification that the use of varactors in conjunction with a split ring would effectively shift the resonant frequency of the notch filter.","PeriodicalId":331835,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132312791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}