TY - JOUR
T1 - Design and test of an electric field sensor for the measurement of high-voltage nanosecond pulses
AU - Lim, Soo Won
AU - Cho, Chuhyun
AU - Jin, Yun Sik
AU - Kim, Young Bae
AU - Roh, Youngsu
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - D-dot sensors were designed and tested for the measurement of nanosecond high-voltage pulses. Computer simulation results showed that the I-type sensor has an acceptable response in a wide range of frequency among three types of sensors such as I, ∇, and T. The I-type sensor has coaxial cylinder shape, which consists of a brass inner conductor, a Teflon middle dielectric, and an aluminum outer conductor. Since I-type showed good linearity up to 1.2 GHz, we calibrated the sensor using relatively low frequencies. The attenuation ratio of the integrated signal of the D-dot sensor was calibrated against a standard high-voltage probe (Tektronix P6015, 75-MHz bandwidth). The measured attenuation ratio and standard deviation were 7.70 × 1012 and 0.0608 × 1012, respectively. The measured attenuation ratio was in good agreement with the calculated ratio within 7.5%. The operational characteristics of the sensor were tested by measuring nanosecond voltage pulses generated from a Blumlein pulse forming line. We measured high-voltage pulses having 300 kV, 5-ns pulsewidth, and 300-ps rise time using the designed D-dot sensor. The accuracy of the sensor enabled detection of several tens of picosecond differences in the rise time of the high-voltage pulses resulting from different gap distances in the peaking switch.
AB - D-dot sensors were designed and tested for the measurement of nanosecond high-voltage pulses. Computer simulation results showed that the I-type sensor has an acceptable response in a wide range of frequency among three types of sensors such as I, ∇, and T. The I-type sensor has coaxial cylinder shape, which consists of a brass inner conductor, a Teflon middle dielectric, and an aluminum outer conductor. Since I-type showed good linearity up to 1.2 GHz, we calibrated the sensor using relatively low frequencies. The attenuation ratio of the integrated signal of the D-dot sensor was calibrated against a standard high-voltage probe (Tektronix P6015, 75-MHz bandwidth). The measured attenuation ratio and standard deviation were 7.70 × 1012 and 0.0608 × 1012, respectively. The measured attenuation ratio was in good agreement with the calculated ratio within 7.5%. The operational characteristics of the sensor were tested by measuring nanosecond voltage pulses generated from a Blumlein pulse forming line. We measured high-voltage pulses having 300 kV, 5-ns pulsewidth, and 300-ps rise time using the designed D-dot sensor. The accuracy of the sensor enabled detection of several tens of picosecond differences in the rise time of the high-voltage pulses resulting from different gap distances in the peaking switch.
KW - D-dot sensor
KW - nanosecond pulse
KW - rise time
KW - ultrawideband (UWB)
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U2 - 10.1109/TPS.2013.2281052
DO - 10.1109/TPS.2013.2281052
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84885910541
VL - 41
SP - 2946
EP - 2950
JO - IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
JF - IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
SN - 0093-3813
IS - 10
M1 - 6605570
ER -