TY - GEN
T1 - Effect of the capacitance distribution on the output impedance of the Half-Wave Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier
AU - Katzir, Liran
AU - Shmilovitz, Doron
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/5/10
Y1 - 2016/5/10
N2 - High voltages are typically generated by voltage multipliers that consist of several multiplying stages, where each stage is composed of a few capacitors and diodes. The Half-Wave Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier is probably the most common multiplier. We compare different methods of capacitance distribution in the Half-Wave Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier and show that the output impedance can be decreased by more than three times compared to the case of the most commonly used method, i.e., the equal capacitance throughout all stages, and a higher output voltage is consequently gained (while yet using an equal total capacitance). For example, our experiment displayed a voltage increase from 5.8 kV to 9.7 kV across the load when the capacitance distributions were changed and the voltage multiplier was split into two sections.
AB - High voltages are typically generated by voltage multipliers that consist of several multiplying stages, where each stage is composed of a few capacitors and diodes. The Half-Wave Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier is probably the most common multiplier. We compare different methods of capacitance distribution in the Half-Wave Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier and show that the output impedance can be decreased by more than three times compared to the case of the most commonly used method, i.e., the equal capacitance throughout all stages, and a higher output voltage is consequently gained (while yet using an equal total capacitance). For example, our experiment displayed a voltage increase from 5.8 kV to 9.7 kV across the load when the capacitance distributions were changed and the voltage multiplier was split into two sections.
KW - Half-Wave Cockcroft-Walton
KW - High Voltage
KW - Voltage multiplier
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U2 - 10.1109/APEC.2016.7468395
DO - 10.1109/APEC.2016.7468395
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AN - SCOPUS:84973636376
T3 - Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC
SP - 3655
EP - 3658
BT - 2016 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, APEC 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 31st Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, APEC 2016
Y2 - 20 March 2016 through 24 March 2016
ER -