Quick search Find article
Quick search
Find article

A gas-phase high-voltage electrical isolator with controlled breakdown

J W Pye

Show affiliations


A simple electrical isolation device is described, which incorporates an insulating porous core to assist in electron-ion recombination. Designed for isolating an ion thruster from its mercury propellant feed system, it has resulted in stand-off voltages in excess of 7 kV at normal operating mercury vapour pressures. Breakdown investigations, leading to the final design, have been included and these show that operation as a controlled high-voltage switch is possible. Some of the life-limiting operating factors have been identified.


PACS

07.50.-e Electrical and electronic instruments and components

52.80.-s Electric discharges

Subjects

Instrumentation and measurement

Plasma physics

Dates

Issue 8 (August 1978)



  1. A gas-phase high-voltage electrical isolator with controlled breakdown

    J W Pye 1978 J. Phys. E: Sci. Instrum. 11 825

  2. FOCUS ON CASIMIR FORCES

    Rubén G Barrera and Serge Reynaud 2006 New J. Phys. 8

  3. From mechanical motion to Brownian motion, thermodynamics and particle transport theory

    E Bringuier 2008 Eur. J. Phys. 29 1243

  4. Ultrahigh-density silicon nanobridges formed between two vertical silicon surfaces

    M Saif Islam et al 2004 Nanotechnology 15 L5

  5. Fusion energy production from a deuterium-tritium plasma in the JET tokamak

    JET Team 1992 Nucl. Fusion 32 187

  6. Concentrations of the decay products of 222Rn in a basement laboratory

    K S Parthasarathy 1977 Phys. Med. Biol. 22 341

  7. Colossal magnetoresistance

    A P Ramirez 1997 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 9 8171

  8. Improvement in XAFS beamline BL01B1 at SPring-8

    T Uruga et al 2009 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 190 012041

  9. The study of solitons in DNA double helices

    Gen-fa Zhou 1989 Phys. Scr. 40 694

  10. Medical Applications of Computer Modelling: Cardiovascular and Ocular Systems

    Richard Clayton 2001 Physiol. Meas. 22 263

View by subject




Export






Please login to access our web services, or create an account if you don't yet have one.

You must have cookies enabled in your web browser to be able to login.

Username
Password

Forgotten your password? Get a new one here.