Shukla Rohit, Banerjee Partha, Sharma Surender K, Das Rashmita, Deb Pankaj, Prabaharan T, Das Basanta, Adhikary Biswajit, Verma Rishi, Shyam Anurag
Energetics and Electromagnetics Division, BARC, Vishakhapatnam 530012, India.
Rev Sci Instrum. 2011 Oct;82(10):106103. doi: 10.1063/1.3648119.
The experimental results of an air-core pulse transformer are presented, which is very compact (<10 Kg in weight) and is primed by a capacitor bank that is fabricated in such a way that the capacitor bank with its switch takes the shape of single-turn rectangular shaped primary of the transformer. A high voltage capacitor assembly (pulse-forming-line capacitor, PFL) of 5.1 nF is connected with the secondary of transformer. The transformer output voltage is 160 kV in its second peak appearing in less than 2 μS from the beginning of the capacitor discharge. The primary capacitor bank can be charged up to a maximum of 18 kV, with the voltage delivery of 360 kV in similar capacitive loads.
