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Programme

20th Pulsed Power Symposium

Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday

Tuesday 18 September 2007

08:00 Registration
09.00 Chairman’s Welcome Address
Ray Rush, e2v, UK
09.05 Welcome to Rutherford Appleton
Mike Glover, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, SciTech, UK
Session 1 Chairman – Ray Rush e2v, UK
09.10 Keynote Address
Colin Whitehouse, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK
09.40 Pulse Power Supplies For EMMA
Stephen Griffiths, Daresbury Laboratory, SciTech, UK
10.00 Design of a 2MV, 3Ω, 100ns radiographic pulsed power driver
Aled Jones, AWE, UK
10.20 Voltage Sharing Scheme for Series-Connected Power Semiconductors
Francis Robinson, University of Bath, UK
10.40 Refreshment Break
Session 2 Chairman – Andy Dunlop, Dynex Semiconductor, UK
11.00 Advances in Exploding Wire Opening Switch Technology
Ivor Smith, Loughborough University, UK
11.20 Solid State Switches Are Successfully Replacing Thyratrons in Demanding Applications
Adriaan Wellemen, ABB Semiconductors Ltd, Switzerland
11.40 High Power RF Induced Damage in CMOS Integrated Circuits
Chris Zammit, DSTL, UK
12.00 Bouncer Modulator for FLASH facility at DESY
Wolfgang Kaesler, Puls-Plasmatechnik, Germany
12.20 Electrical Characterisation of a Conductive Polymer Films Related to Pulsed Power Applications
Bart Roodenburg, Delft University of Technology, Holland
12.40 Characterization of the Dynamic Properties of a Short Circuited Pulse Power Supply
M.J. Given, HVT Research Group, Institute for Energy and Environment, University of Strathclyde, UK
13.00 Lunch Break
   
Session 3 Chairman – Chris Spikings, BAE Systems, UK
   
13.40 Development of a Plasma Gun Source for a Repetitive and Miniaturised High-Power Plasma Opening Switch
Bucur Novac, Loughborough University, UK
14.00 A Cusp Gun Gyro-TWA with Helical Interaction Region
David Rowlands, Strathclyde University, UK
14.20 The Quest for Wholly Stable Liner
Walter Atchison, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
14.40 Influence of Pulse Voltage Waveforms on Ozone Generation
Shuiliang Yao, Research Institute of Innovative Technology, Japan
15.00 Design of Possible Experiments With Helical EMG for the Study of Condensed Liners Magnetic Implosion Instability
Sergey Garanin, All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF)
15.20 Multiple Coupled Resonator Power Supply and Pulsed Power Applications
Richard Adler, North Star Power Engineering
Poster Session and refreshments.
15.40

Major Discoveries of Superconducting Behaviors of a Unijunction Transistor at Room Temperature That May Revolutionize our Industry
Kwok Cheung Pun,
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia

High Power Microwave Sources on the Basis of Volume Free Electron Laser
Alexandra Gurinovich, Vladimir Baryshevsky, Research Institute for Nuclear Problems

Simple, Low Cost Fast Transient Voltage And Current Sensors For Use With Coaxial Cables
Rajesh Kumar, Bucur Novac, Ivor Smith, Jean Larour Loughborough University, UK

The Calculation of Metallized Capacitor’s Inner Pressure Intensity and Its Influence on the self-healing characteristics
ZhongHua KONG, Fuchang LIN, Ling DAI, College of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Simple Inexpensive Sub-Nano-Second High Power Pulsar and Radio-frequency Radiation System
Partha Banerjee, T Prabaharan, A Shyam, Institute for Plasma Research, India

Breakdown Voltages of Dielectric Coated Electrodes in Oil Insulated Gaps
Robin Ibbotson, Peter Leask, BAe Systems, UK

Numerical Simulations of Magnetic Flux Compression Generator Systems
Patrik Appelgren, Anders Larsson, Sten E Nyholm, Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI Sweden

Detailed 2D Modelling of Tesla Transformers
Partha Sarkar, Bucur Novac, Ivor Smith, Richard Miller, Loughborough University, UK

Possibility of the Investigation of Condensed Liner Magnetic Implosion Instability in the Experiments with Disc EMG
Anatoly M Buyko, All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF)

Design and Analysis of the Z-Pinch Loads on the PTS Generator

Ding Ning, Ning Cheng, and Zhang Yang, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics

A Novel Ultrasonic Flaw Detector for Insulators
Vahidi Behrooz, Goodarzy Ehsan, Ghorat Mohsen, Amir Kabir, University of Technology

Cumulation of Energy by Multispark Diaphragm Autooscillation Process in Electrolyte
Ruslan Medvedev, Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Russia

Development of a novel single-mode microwave reactor for the study of combustion behaviour of carbon particles in flow process
Waheed Adeyemi, Institute for Heat Engineering and Thermodynamic, Technical University Freiberg, Germany

Quantification of factors contributing to the x-ray spot produced by the paraxial diode with a plasma-filled drift cell
David Short, AWE, UK

An Investigation of Breakdown Strength in Bulk Insulator Materials
Edward Totten, BAe Systems, UK

High power microwave pulser for the electromagnetic radiation
Baptiste Cadilhon, Electrical Engineering Laboratory, PAU University, France

Dual Waveform Ringing Gain analysis and its application to the pre-pulse reduction on Blumlein-based X-ray machines
Trevor Williams, Stephen Clough, AWE, UK

Pre-pulse minimisation on Blumlein-based X-ray machines by optimisation of balance circuit parameters
Trevor Williams, AWE, UK

Energy Recovery High Power Trigger Generator for Thyratron Trigger Application
Bob Richardson, e2v, UK

Surface Flashover of Low-Density Polyethylene in Transformer oil
MP Wilson, TA Fouracre, MJ Given, SJ MacGregor, IV Timoshkin, KJ Thomas, MA Sinclair, HVT Research Group, Institute for Energy and Environment, University of Strathclyde, UK

Design and instillation of the new Extraction Kicker system at ISIS
Adrian McFarland, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK

Plasma Flow Control by Short Magnetic Coil in Source of Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation
Vasyl Maslov, Kharkov National University, Ukraine

Spatial Stabilization of Electrical Double Layer by Magnetic Field of Short Coil in Plasma Discharge Source of Extreme Ultra – Violet Radiation
Vasyl Maslov, Kharkov National University, Ukraine

17.30 End of session
19.00 Pre-dinner drink
19.30 Dinner and Awards Presentation