Ion cyclotron resonance heating transmitter opening switch upgrade
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Gaudreau, Marcel P. J.; Kinross-Wright, John; Kempkes, Michael
- Source
- 2017 Eighteenth International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC) Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), 2017 Eighteenth International. :1-2 Apr, 2017
- Subject
- Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Switches
Transmitters
Diffusion tensor imaging
Heating systems
Electron tubes
Rectifiers
Plasmas
Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating
ignitron
solidstate opening switch
- Language
Diversified Technologies Inc. (DTI) has installed a high-power solid-state opening switch upgrade package to replace the mercury ignitron crowbars in the Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating (ICRH) Transmitters at MIT Plasma Fusion Science Center's (PFSC) Alcator C-Mod, a Tokamak-type fusion experimental device.