Formation of volume discharges in dense gases at pulse repetition rates up to 10 kHz

Abstact It is shown that for the formation of stable volume discharges at pulse repetition frequencies up to 10 kHz and more, it is recommended to use sectioning of the discharge gap with subsequent excitation of discharges in each section from an autonomous pulse generator. The role of an autonomous pulse generator can also be performed by an auxiliary circuit that directs the necessary part of the energy stored in the main energy storage of a pulse generator with only a single switch to an individual discharge gaps. The description and results of the study of one of these variants of a partitioned discharge gap and a pulse generator are given. Pumping energy densities of 100–150 mJ-cm−3 at pulse repetition frequencies up to 8 kHz in CO2 laser mixtures and 80–100 mJ-cm−3 in N2-Ne and Xe–Ne mixtures at pulse repetition frequencies up to 10 kHz were achieved.

A Duty Cycle Controlled ZVS Buck Converter With Voltage Doubler Type Auxiliary Circuit

DC–DC converters have wide applications in industries, motor drive circuits, electric vehicles, and power supplies. In traditional converters hard switching occurs due to switching losses. This imposes constraints on the converter’s efficiency which results in heat dissipation and reduction in the converter’s life. The proposed converter aims to encounter the hard switching problem with the provision of soft switching features. The presented topology is efficient with respect to the features of cost, compact size and durable lifetime of converter topology with the provision of low switching stresses. This research work proposes a novel stepdown converter with zero voltage switching characteristics. With the use of half bridge inverter switches and series resonant components in the auxiliary circuit, the target of zero voltage switching and reduction in switching stresses has been achieved. The proposed 500 W converter is designed to operate at frequency of 100 KHz with 300 V source input voltage. Output voltage of the converter is 150 V.