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Investigations of Vacuum Insulator Flashover in Pulsed Power Systems

Hopkins, Matthew M.; Brooks, William; Clark, Raimi; Echo, Zakari S.; Goeke, Ronald S.; Moore, Christopher H.; Mounho, Michael; Neuber, Andreas; Stephens, Jacob; Young, Jacob

This presentation describes a new effort to better understand insulator flashover in high current, high voltage pulsed power systems. Both experimental and modeling investigations are described. Particular emphasis is put upon understand flashover that initiate in the anode triple junction (anode-vacuum-dielectric).