Pulsed Voltage Adder Topology Based on Inductive Blumlein Lines.

A new scheme of pulsed voltage adding using inductively charged Blumlein lines has been proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The circuit principle is explained based on the analogy with capacitively charged Blumlein lines. In the experiments, striplines have been used for inductive energy storage, and SiC power devices have been used as the opening switches. The experimental results have proved both the circuit behavior and the voltage adding by using multimodule stack. This circuit method is expected to become a new approach to compact and repetitive pulsed-power generation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]