Solid-state thyratron replacement
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Roth, Ian; Gaudreau, Marcel; Butler, Neal; Kempkes, Michael; Simpson, Rebecca
- Source
- 2018 IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC) Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), 2018 IEEE International. :317-318 Apr, 2018
- Subject
- Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Switches
Electron tubes
Rectifiers
Insulated gate bipolar transistors
Reliability
Diffusion tensor imaging
Modulation
thyratron
solid-state
switch
IGBT
- Language
Diversified Technologies, Inc. (DTI) has developed and built a solid-state switch as a form-fit- function interface upgrade kit to replace legacy thyratron equipment. Under a US DOE SBIR for the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, this switch was designed using arrays of series- and parallel-connected commercial insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs). The solid-state switch's extremely long life and reliability presents an attractive replacement opportunity for many thyratron- based systems.