• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07c
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• pp.2129-2131
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• 2000

The thyratron is a very important device in the modulator as the high power switch but there is no method to diagnose the inside of the thyratron. The thyratron always require ranging, maintaining of the proper pressure, for the optimum operation of the thyratron. But, up to now this only depends on the experience of the operator. In this paper, we discuss the diagnostic of the thyratron by the convection heat current and the principle and experimental data will be compared for the automatical adjustment of optimum gas pressure of the thyratron at the intial stage.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.11b
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• pp.348-351
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• 2000

There have been significant advances in thyratron performance in recent years. these advanced waveforms have increased the complexity and cost of drive circuits. Thyratrons can reliably switch anode voltages up to 40kV and conduct peak currents up to 10kA or more. So stable thyratron drivers are essential for reliable high voltage pulse modulators. In order to operate thyratron well, thyratron driver need high repetition rate, fast rising time and low jitter. In this paper, used power MOSFET/transformer combinations. Designed thyratron driver is satisfied requirements and experimental results are presented to confirm.

• 전기의세계
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• v.11
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• pp.14-17
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• 1963

정확하게 control된 pulse의 용도는 과학과 공업이 발달될수록 날로 많아져 가고 있는데 그의 일부는 대전력을 취급하는 경우로서, Radar에 대한 응용을 들 수 있다. 한편, 요지음 gallium-arsenide등 반도체 diode를 사용해서 Laser action을 일으킬 수 있다는것이 발견되어 G.E. 및 IBM등에서 개발되고 있다. 이 경우에, continuous emission도 가능하지만 흔히, intermittent operation을 시켜야 할 때가 많기 때문에 timed pulse source가 필요하게 된다. 또 한편, spot welding의 경우에도 이러한 pulse source가 필요하게 된다. 이들을 크게 나누어 source를 AC로 할 경우와 DC로 할 경우가 있는데, 전자의 경우는 thyratron을 사용할 경우가 많게 될 것이다. DC의 경우나 AC의 경우에나 잘 shape되고 time된 pulse source를 만들어 놓으면 진공관이나 thyratron이나 같은 모양으로 drive할 수 (thyratron의 경우는 trigger)있을 것이기 때문에, 이러한 pulse source를 만들 필요가 있게 된다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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• v.54 no.5
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• pp.190-197
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• 2005

A reliable and compact pulse power supply using a thyratron and a magnetic pulse compression (MPC) circuit was developed for a metal vapor laser. The life time of the pulse power supply is expected to be much longer than that of a conventional thyratron-discharge type pulse power supply. A thyratron generated a long pulse of its conduction pulse width 500 ns and then it was compressed to less than 80 ns of its output voltage rise time by a three stage MPC circuit. This pulse power supply was applied to a laser plasma tube of 30 mm inner diameter and 1.5 m discharge length. It was operated several hundreds hours without any troubles.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07e
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• pp.2189-2191
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• 1999

To improve the reliability of the klystron-modulator systems, the stable operations of the thyratron an important factor of the system are required. The thyratron always has a possibility of self-fire according to the conditions of the applied high voltage and this induces the system fault. Therefore a command charging method was introduced to reduce the applied tim8 of the high voltage into the thyratron. The high voltage switch used in the command charging method is the SCR (1.6 kV, 50A) and consists of 10 SCRs in series to discharge 10 kV. A pulse transformer was used to apply the trigger pulse. The objectives of this research are the fabrication of the semiconductor switch and the study of the experimental result of the operation characteristics of the high voltage semiconductor switch.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07f
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• pp.2127-2129
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• 1998

In this paper, discharging part of high voltage pulse power supply of E-beam generating device is simulated and experimented. It is composed of high voltage part and high voltage pulse part. High voltage part is AC 380, DC/DC converter, high voltage high frequency transformer. High voltage pulse part is double pulse forming network and Thyratron. In the result, computer simulation analysis is same to experimental result and high voltage pulse is obtained 10kV, 4A, 10uS.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.08a
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• pp.48-48
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• 2010

현재 포항가속기연구소의 선형가속기에서 운전되고 있는 모듈레이터는 클라이스트론의 펄스 전원을 공급하는 펄스 전원공급 장치로서 출력은 최대 400 kV, 500 A, $7.5\;{\mu}s$의 펄스를 S band 클라이스트론에 공급한다. 모듈레이터의 고전압펄스 약 40 kV을 스위칭 하기위하여 진공스위치인 싸이라트론 스위치를 사용하고 있다. 모듈레이터 시스템에서 Jitter 발생 요인을 살펴보면, 대부분 싸이라트론 스위치회로에서 발생된다. 싸이라트론이 유발시키는 Jitter는 약 10 ns 이하이므로 매우 적다고 할 수 있다. 스위치의 Jitter가 적음에도 불구하고 모듈레이터 시스템에서 Jitter가 크게 발생한다면, 싸이라트론의 음극(cathode)에서 양극(anode)으로 흐르는 전자빔을 제어하는 Control Grid(G1 & G2)의 pulse 전압의 Jitter가 크기 때문이다. 싸이라트론 Grid 2에 공급되는 pulse 전압의 Jitter를 줄이는 것은 필수적이라 하겠다. 진공스위치인 싸이라트론 Grid에 pulse 전압을 공급하는 싸이라트론 드라이버 시스템의 안정화가 중요하므로 시제품 설계시 안정성을 충분히 고려하였다. 본 발표에서는 시제품으로 제작한 Thyratron Drive System의 기능 및 측정결과에 대해서 기술하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1996.07a
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• pp.556-558
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• 1996

PLS 2-GeV linac has 11 sets of high power klystron-modulator system as a main RF source for the beam acceleration. The modulators can provide 200-MW peak pulsed power(400-kV, 500-A) with a pulse width of $7.5{\mu}s$(ESW), a maximum pulse repetition rate of 120-Hz at the full power level. The DC power supply provides a 25-kV, 7-Adc and the charging system consists of a charging inductor, charging capacitor, and the diode for reverse current protection. The charged PFN voltage by a LC resonant charging method has two times of the DC high voltage and the pulsed power is delivered to the load by a thyratron switch. To reduced the press of high voltage lit thyratron switch, the command charging is the best method. In this article, the high voltage switch for the command charging method is tested to the start work and the system is presented with the experiment results of the trigger and operational characteristics.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07e
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• pp.1800-1802
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• 1998

The Pohang Light Source (PLS) is a third generation 2 GeV synchrotron machine. An injection kicker modulator is positioned in the PLS storage ring tunnel. The kicker modulator is driving four kicker magnets simultaneously. The kicker magnets produce magnetic field to deflect the stored beam orbit in the storage ring closer to the injected beam from the PLS beam transfer line. The injected beam then falls into the storage ring beam dynamic aperture. The current kicker modulator was upgraded and installed on August 1995. Since then, the kicker modulator has shown very reliable and stable performance. The kicker modulator specifications are ${\sim}6.0{\mu}s$ full width, ${\sim}24$ kA peak current, and 10 Hz repetition rate. Output current waveform is a half sinusoid. Two thyratron switches(EEV CX-1536AX) are used in the kicker modulator. Total accumulated thyratron heater run hour is about 15,000 hours as of May 1998. Measurement result of spatial magnetic field distribution in the kicker magnet shows good uniformity.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.178-182
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• 1992

An air-cooled discharge-heated copper-vapor laser system with its inter-electrode distance of 45 cm has been developed by utilizing an alumina ceramic plasma tube of 1.6 cm in diameter and 50 cm in lengih. For operating the laser, a dc high voltage power supply with output rating of 6 kV and 500 mA, a resonant charging circuitry consisting partly of an 1.8 H inductor assembly and a 5 nF storage capacitor, and a thyratron driver operating up to 7 kHz have also been developed. The present laser system starts lasing at the tube temperature of about $1350^{\circ}C$ and an maximum average output power of 0.7 W has been obtained at 12 kV, 4.5 kHz. 50 mbar of Ne buffer gas pressure, and at the tube temperature of $1460^{\circ}C$.