Design and Preliminary Experimental Results on a Uniform-Field Test Fixture for Power Flow Experiments
Electrodes that produce a uniform electric field across their surfaces are desired for a variety of high-voltage systems, including spark-gap switches and transversely excited atmospheric lasers. Here, the implementation of uniform-field electrodes to a parallel-plate load is described for the study of vacuum power flow under pulsed-power applications. We begin with an overview of general uniform-field geometries and provide an open-source program that generates these geometries as described by Ernst. Following that, a modification to an existing power-flow experimental platform, which adopts a uniform-field geometry, is introduced and its utility is described. Finally, the preliminary experimental results are presented and future steps are outlined.
Authors
- E. S. Lavine (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0354-9088)
- Randy D. Curry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8834-2608)
- Michael J. Abere (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3901-6478)
- Alex Sarracino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7407-3304)
- R. B. Spielman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5355-3915)
- T. R. Mundy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4197-2351)
- Derek C. Lamppa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7431-7391)
- C. T. Chavez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9028-8444)
- T. Mason
Institutions
- Cornell University (US)
- Sandia National Laboratories (US)
- Energetics (United States) (US)
- Pulse Biosciences (United States) (US)
- Imperial College London (GB)
- University of Rochester (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
- Published
- 2025-08-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tps.2025.3584932
- Primary Topic
- Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00