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The paper describes the design and reports the results of tests of a linear transformer driver with the following parameters: stored energy 14 kJ, output voltage 90 kV, current amplitude in the secondary winding 750 kA, and current risetime to its peak ∼430 ns. The driver can be employed as the main generator unit powering a load of the Z-pinch type as well as in high-current charged-particle accelerators.
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A. N. Bastrikov, A. A. Kim, V. M. Kovalchuk,et al., in: Proc. XIth IEEE pulsed Power Conf. (1997), p. 480.
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Institute of High Current Electronics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 12, pp. 3–8, December, 1999.
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Kim, A.A., Kovalchuk, B.M., Kumpyak, E.V. et al. Linear transformer driver with a 750-kA current and A 400-ns current risetime. Russ Phys J 42, 985–989 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02512407
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02512407