Developmental studies on fast high voltage marx generators

Abstract

Marx Generators have been in wide use for a very long time for generation of lightning and representative switching overvoltages in High voltage laboratories Marx generators have also found extensive applications in areas of defense nuclear physics civilian applications industry medicine etc wherein fast risetimes of the order of hundreds of nanoseconds down to subnanoseconds are required In conventional Marx generators the inductance of the Marx is not always critical However in pulsed power applications mentioned above where much faster pulses are required residual inductance becomes a serious limiting factor newline