{"title":"Special Issue on Pulsed Power Science and Technology","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/TPS.2025.3583455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2025.3583455","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":450,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science","volume":"53 7","pages":"1836-1836"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11079399","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144624055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Member ad suite","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/TPS.2025.3584300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2025.3584300","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":450,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science","volume":"53 7","pages":"1838-1838"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11079400","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144623922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special Issue on Plenary, Invited, Workshop on Pulsed Power for Fusion from PPPS-2025","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/TPS.2025.3583453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2025.3583453","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":450,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science","volume":"53 7","pages":"1837-1837"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11079401","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144623881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Ultraminiaturized Multiband Metasurface Absorber Toward Multifold Sensing Applications in Healthcare","authors":"Pankaj Binda;Raghvenda Kumar Singh;Somak Bhattacharyya","doi":"10.1109/TPS.2025.3578731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2025.3578731","url":null,"abstract":"Terahertz (THz) sensors based on metasurface (MS) absorbers have shown lot of promise in healthcare sector because of their high quality (<italic>Q</i>)-factor surface plasmon resonance (SPR) characteristics. However, single-band functionality of these sensors might lead to false-positive result. In this article, we present an angularly stable (up to ±40°) triple-band microscale MS absorber in THz domain and its utility to unprecedented applications toward multifold sensing. With ultranarrow linewidth and close-to-perfect absorbance, the suggested MS absorber delivers near-perfect triple-band absorption around 1.675, 3.504, and 5.694 THz. The absorption feature is validated by an in-house equivalent circuit model (ECM). Owing to the ultranarrow absorption peaks in the THz domain, the intended metasensor demonstrates high sensitivity and figure of merit (FoM) toward variations in refractive index (RI) of the analyte layer; thereby, finding it capable to detect and distinguish various types of cancers, tumors, viruses, tuberculosis, malaria, hemoglobin content in blood, and glucose content in water. The respective half-power bandwidths of 0.109, 0.206, and 0.370 THz result into high <italic>Q</i>-factors of 15.367, 17.009, and 15.389. It offers an estimated sensitivity of 0.363, 0.991, and 1.636 THz/RIU together with FoM of 3.330, 4.809, and 4.421 RIU<sup>−1</sup>, respectively, at the three absorption peaks, covering a wide range of refractive indices (1.3–1.5). The designed meta-atom is ultraminiaturized and low profile with overall footprint dimension of <inline-formula> <tex-math>$0.128lambda times 0.128lambda times 0.013lambda $ </tex-math></inline-formula> at 1.675 THz.","PeriodicalId":450,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science","volume":"53 7","pages":"1711-1721"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144623963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Numerical Simulation and Theoretical Analysis on the Failure Mechanism of p-i-n Limiter Under High-Power Microwave Pulse","authors":"Lan Li;Yang Zhang;Lishan Zhao;Yuwei Fan","doi":"10.1109/TPS.2025.3575433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2025.3575433","url":null,"abstract":"Numerical simulation can present the real-time distribution of the multiphysic field of devices during the action of high-power microwave (HPM) pulse, which makes it become a highly efficient method to reveal the thermal failure of devices. The study focuses on the thermal failure of the cascaded p-i-n limiter under HPM pulses. Considering the multiphysical phenomena of p-i-n diodes and circuit elements within the limiter, the field-circuit model of the cascaded p-i-n limiter is established by transforming the transmission line into equivalent lumped circuit elements and modifying the thermal parameter models of the p-i-n diodes. Based on the model, the thermal failure effect of cascaded p-i-n limiters under HPM pulses is investigated, and the relationship between the failure power and pulsewidth is obtained, which is consistent with the results of Tasca-Wunsch law. Furthermore, the study reveals the failure mechanism of the cascaded p-i-n limiter under HPM pulses, and the thermal burnout location of the limiter is determined.","PeriodicalId":450,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science","volume":"53 7","pages":"1552-1562"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144623879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special Issue on Pulsed Power Science and Technology","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/TPS.2025.3574773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2025.3574773","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":450,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science","volume":"53 6","pages":"1429-1429"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11037928","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144308336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study on the Drawn Vacuum Arc Characteristics of the 126 kV Axial Magnetic Field Contacts","authors":"Jiaxi Shi;Yongpeng Mo;Haibo Su;Siyuan Ju;Tao Tan;Rongzhao Jia;Yisheng Li;Yiming Ding;Zongqian Shi;Shenli Jia","doi":"10.1109/TPS.2025.3568440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2025.3568440","url":null,"abstract":"During the current interruption process, the vacuum arc evolution characteristics are crucial in determining whether a vacuum circuit breaker can interrupt the current successfully. In order to analyze the expansion characteristics of cathode spots (CSs) on the 126 kV axial magnetic field (AMF) contacts, the drawn vacuum arc experiments were conducted. To observe more characteristics of the drawn vacuum arc, two high-speed cameras were used simultaneously to capture the dynamics of both the vacuum arc and CSs. The experimental results indicated that the vacuum arc column could not expand sufficiently to cover the entire contact surface. Additionally, multiple types of vacuum arc column modes occurred in the experiments, and the number of ignition positions also affected both the appearance of vacuum arc and the diffusion process of CSs. Moreover, the magnetic field distribution under different vacuum arc column modes was simulated. In the contact surface near the contact edge, the AMF components are smaller than the transverse magnetic field (TMF) components and these lead a rapid radial expansion of CSs. Furthermore, significant deflection occurs for CSs located in central area on both cup-type AMF contact and coil-type contacts. However, the CSs of these two types of contacts show different deflection directions. When the total arc area remains constant but the number of arc columns increases, the TMF components decreases and radial velocity of CSs also decrease. The simulation results also indicated that the variation in the number of arc columns has a relatively small impact on the distribution of the AMF component.","PeriodicalId":450,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science","volume":"53 7","pages":"1592-1603"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144624014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Compact Battery-Powered 400-kV High-Voltage Pulse Generator for UWB EMP Generation","authors":"Woo-Cheol Jeong;Hong-Je Ryoo","doi":"10.1109/TPS.2025.3574920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2025.3574920","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents the implementation of a high-voltage pulse generator for portable ultrawideband (UWB) electromagnetic pulse (EMP) generation. The generator is designed to meet the portability requirements and generate high-voltage pulses with a short rise time and high repetition rate. To achieve a high step-up ratio efficiently, an inductive isolation-based Marx generator is employed, driven by a high-voltage capacitor charger (HVCC). The HVCC is designed with a Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier (CWVM)-based bipolar hybrid symmetrical voltage multiplier (BHSVM) to increase the low battery voltage (24 V) to over 60 kV, ensuring effective high-voltage boosting and insulation. Additionally, an equivalent modeling technique is proposed for the BHSVM circuit, and based on this, an LCC resonant converter was implemented without additional magnetic components. The parameters of the LCC resonant converter were designed to enable soft switching across the entire output voltage range, considering the repeated charging and discharging involved in the application. Moreover, the design incorporates a high-voltage transformer with insulation of >10 kV and a charging cable instead of the conventional charging resistor, ensuring both insulation and charging resistance. Simulations validated the accuracy of the BHSVM equivalent model and the high-efficiency operation of the LCC resonant converter across the full voltage range. Experimental results demonstrated that the compact, high-density high-voltage pulse generator can deliver high-voltage pulse at the repetition rate of 120 Hz to the antenna and UWB EMP with an amplitude of 421 kV and a rise time of 0.5 ns.","PeriodicalId":450,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science","volume":"53 7","pages":"1543-1551"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144623960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Nanosecond Pulsed Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet Driven by a Solid-State Multiwinding Inductive Voltage Adder","authors":"Hanze Wei;Qun Wang;Junfeng Rao;Jinsong Guo;Fukun Shi;Jie Zhuang","doi":"10.1109/TPS.2025.3577811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2025.3577811","url":null,"abstract":"Atmospheric pressure plasma jet (APPJ) driven by nanosecond pulsed electric fields (nsPEFs) have been investigated and employed in plasma medicine applications, owing to nonthermal characteristics and abundant reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS). Compared with conventional nanosecond pulse generators for ns-APPJ, the inductive voltage adder (IVA) is capable of achieving high-voltage step-up ratios through electromagnetic coupling while simultaneously reducing insulation requirements. In this study, a solid-state nanosecond IVA with variable winding is proposed. The apparatus consists of ten stages coupled with nanocrystalline cores, producing 10-kHz repetitive pulses on capacitive loads. The output voltage is up to 24 kV with a step-up ratio of 53.3 and a turn ratio of 1:3 with a load capacitor of 400 pF. The minimum full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) on capacitive loads is 100 ns with a narrow falling edge owing to a designed magnetic switch. The influence of parasitic parameters on pulse performance is analyzed, and pulse specifications and circuit parameters are discussed. Furthermore, the generator is used to drive an argon plasma jet using a coaxial pin-ring electrode. The APPJ is diagnosed by optical emission spectroscopy (OES). This study provides a feasible design for nsPEF-driven plasmas.","PeriodicalId":450,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science","volume":"53 7","pages":"1763-1771"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144624052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design and Analysis of Double-Sided Excited Permanent Magnet Arc Motor Having Parallel Complementary Effect","authors":"Zhenbao Pan;Jinhao Cai;Jiwen Zhao;Kaiwei Wei","doi":"10.1109/TPS.2025.3576759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2025.3576759","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes a new double-sided excited permanent magnet arc motor with a parallel complementary effect (PCE-PMAM) used in electromagnetic launch systems. The PCE-PMAM is featured by parallel complementary design (PCD) and bidirectional flux modulation effect (BFME). Based on PCD and BFME, the proposed PCE-PMAM has the advantages of high average torque and low torque ripple. Specifically, the topology structure and working principle of the proposed PCE-PMAM are introduced, and then the stator slot-rotor pole combination of the PCE-PMAM is optimized to obtain optimal motor performance. Subsequently, the working mechanism of torque ripple mitigation is analytically analyzed based on the PCD. Finally, the electromagnetic performance of the proposed PCE-PMAM is compared with other three kinds of PM arc motors (PMAMs) based on the finite-element (FE) method, and the comparative results verify the superiority of the proposed PCE-PMAM.","PeriodicalId":450,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science","volume":"53 7","pages":"1637-1645"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144624015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}