Name: 2017 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference
Start: 2017-06-18T12:00:00+01:00
End: 2017-06-22T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Hilton Brighton Metropole Hotel

Monday, 19 June 2017
08:45
08:45 - 09:45
Room: Oxford Hall
Contributions

08:45 HIGH PULSED POWER AT CEA DAM - Michel Caron (CEA)
09:45 Coffee/Tea Break: Sponsored by AWE
Coffee/Tea Break: Sponsored by AWE
09:45 - 10:00
10:00
10:00 - 12:30
Room: Preston
Contributions

10:00 A Greater Than 6 MV Laser Triggered Gas Switch Used on Z - Peter Wakeland (Sandia National Laboratories)

10:30 The investigation of propylene carbonate based nano-fluids as an energy storage medium for pulsed power sources - Yanpan Hou (College of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology)

10:45 Modular, High-Energy, 4 MA driver for Exploding Foil Initiators* - Mark Rhodes (Lawrence Livermore National Labs)

11:00 HIGH CURRENT AND CURRENT RISE RATE THYRISTOR BASED SWITCHES - Anton Gusev (Institute of Electrophysics)

11:15 Implementation of High-Voltage Switch Using Inductive Energy for Switch Synchronization - Gideon Nimo Appiah (University of Science and Technology)

11:30 HIGH CURRENT, HIGH VOLTAGE SOLID-STATE SWITCH PROGRESS AT AFRL - Susan Heidger (U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory)

12:00 Voltage Maintaining Performance of High Energy Density Capacitor - Hua Li (State Key Laboratory of Advanced Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology, HUST)

12:15 Photocurrent Efficiency in Bulk and PIN SiC Photoconductive Semiconductor Switches for Pulsed Power Applications - Daniel Mauch (Texas Tech University)
10:00 - 12:30
Room: Stanmer
Contributions

10:00 POWER MODULATOR FOR HIGH-YIELD PRODUCTION OF PLASMA ACTIVATED WATER - Guus Pemen (Eindhoven University of Technology)

10:30 Study of OH Radical Generation Process in Pulsed Air Discharge Including Water Droplets - Taichi Sugai (Nagaoka University of Technology)

10:45 SUB-MICROSECOND DISCHARGES FOR THE DEGRADATION OF ORGANIC POLLUTANTS IN WATER* - Juergen F. Kolb (Leibniz Institut for Plasma Science and Technology)

11:15 Optimization of Persistent Organic Pollutants Treatment in Wastewater Using by Nanosecond Pulsed Non-Thermal Plasma - Shintaro Kodama (Kumamoto university)

11:30 Dose effect of high frequency nanosecond pulse bursts on muscle contraction of rabbit in vivo - Jin Xu (Chongqing University)

11:45 Local Heating and Stresses Across Membranes of Microorgansims Exposed to Pulsed Electric Fields - Bolin Song (University of Strathclyde)

12:00 Pulsed Electric Field Processing of Fruits and Vegetables - Michael Kempkes (Diversified Technologies)

12:15 Atmospheric pressure dry- and mist-plasma jets using pulsed power generator and their effects on HeLa cells - Ken Watanabe (Kumamoto University)
10:00 - 12:30
Room: Oxford Hall
Contributions

10:00 O-TYPE METAMATERIAL HIGH POWER MICROWAVE SOURCE WITH 310 MW OUTPUT POWER* - Sabahattin Yurt (University of New Mexico)

10:15 GW level microwave pulses in X-band from a combination of a relativistic BWO and a helical-waveguide compressor - Adrian Cross (University of Strathclyde)

10:30 RESULTS OF A COMPACT REFLEX TRIODE WITH MULTI CAVITY ADJUSTMENT - David Barnett (Texas Tech University)

10:45 TRANSPARENT CATHODE AS A NEW CHERENKOV OSCILLATOR - Edl Schamiloglu (University of New Mexico)

11:15 DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF A RELATIVISTIC INVERTED MAGNETRON - Renee Van Ginhoven (AFRL)

11:30 Refurbishment of the ORION System at NSWC Dahlgren - John Krile (Naval Surface Warfare Center Dalhgren)

12:00 The wakefield excited by an ultra-short HPM pulse in an under dense plasma filled cylindrical waveguide - J.G. Leopold (Technion)

12:15 Experimental investigation of an L band all cavity axial extraction relativistic magnetron - Fen Qin (Institute of Applied Electronics)
12:30 Lunch Break: Sponsored by ITHPP
Lunch Break: Sponsored by ITHPP
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Regency
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Hall 4 / Cambridge
Contributions

13:30 Magnetic Coupling in Tesla transformers - Ivor Smith (Loughborough University)

13:30 High-Current Test Stand for HPM Sources Testing Based on the Marx Generator - Yaroslav Tkach (GRA Inc.)

13:30 4616V4 Tetrode and Klystron RF Resources for CSNS LINAC - Wenzhong Zhou

13:30 The Design Energy Saving Device for RF System at Taiwan Photon Source. - Fu-Tsai Chung (NSRRC/Taiwan)

13:30 Modification of Townsend Breakdown Theory for investigating the High-Power Microwave Propagation in the Atmosphere - Bao-Liang Qian (NUDT)

13:30 A Test Stand used to Evaluate a Prototype S-band Sheet Beam Klystron - Michael Perkins (Varex Imaging Corporation)

13:30 Improved secondary windings for the Tesla transformer - Ivor Smith (Loughborough University)

13:30 Laser induced plasma for HPM Compressor Switching - Jacob Cohen (rafael)

13:30 Periodic Structures Manufactured by 3D Printing for Electron Beam Excitation of High Power Microwave Sources - Adrian Cross (University of Strathclyde)

13:30 High Power Soliton Generation Using Hybrid Nonlinear Transmission lines - Lauro Paulo Silva Neto (Federal University of São Paulo)

13:30 High-Power RF Source for the Pulsed Fields Excitation in the Ground - Yaroslav Tkach (GRA Inc.)

13:30 Planar removable high voltage Vivaldi antenna - Jean-Christophe DIOT (CEA)

13:30 Experimental investigation of relativistic backward-wave oscillators operating in phase-induced regime - Vladislav Rostov (Institute of High Current Electronics)

13:30 Phase control in a klystron-like relativistic backward wave oscillator operating at low guiding magnetic field with 10 kW input signal - Renzhen Xiao (Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology)

13:30 An all circular waveguide four-way power combiner with ultra high power capacity and high combination efficiency - Renzhen Xiao (Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology)

13:30 DEVELOPMENT AND TEST OF A COMPACT PFN MARX FOR 100 PPS REPETITIVE OPERATION AT 400 kV – 85 ns – 5 ns RISE TIME ON A 100 Ohm LOAD - Martial Toury (CEA Gramat)

13:30 EFFECTS OF PULSE SHAPES ON AXIAL VIRTUAL CATHODE OSCILLATOR - Se-Hoon Kim (Hanyang University)

13:30 Analysis on Design Parameters of Plasma Limiter for Protecting against High Power Electromagnetic Pulse - Young-Maan Cho (Hanyang Univ.)

13:30 Results of an S-band Sheet Beam Klystron Development Effort - Michael Perkins (Varex Imaging Corporation)

13:30 Multi-point Ignition Process in Methane-air Mixtures by Pulsed Microwave Power - Cheng Liu (Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University)

13:30 PARTICLE-IN-CELL CODE INVESTIGATION OF MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECT ON AXIAL VIRCATOR - Shen Shou Max Chung (National Yang Ming University)

13:30 Emitter Residual Gas Effects in a High Power Microwave System - Denny Åberg (BAE Systems Bofors AB)

13:30 Experimental Studies on Cathode Material Dependence of Mirowave Power in Axially-Extracted Vircator with Resonance Cavity - Motohiro Teramae (Univ. of Toyama)

13:30 Compact Marx Generator and High Power Microwave System - David Barnett (Texas Tech University)

13:30 35 kV Inductive Adder for Driving 50 Ω with Fast Rise Time - John Carscadden (Eagle Harbor Technologies, Inc.)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Hall 4 / Cambridge
Contributions

13:30 Essential Launching Characteristics of Four Typical Electromagnetic Railguns Launchers - Hongjun Xiang (Shijiazhuang Mechanical Engineering College)

13:30 Simulation of pore density and pore radius based on cell electrofusion - Qiang Ke (Chongqing University)

13:30 Design and Electromagnetic Analysis of an Induction Type Coilgun System with Pulse Power module - Byeong-Soo Go (Changwon National University)

13:30 Direct and indirect NO removal with (sub)nanosecond pulses: yield and by-product formation - Tom Huiskamp (Eindhoven University of Technology)

13:30 Design of pulsed power system for permitting to utilize attractive force of multi-stages synchronous induction coilgun - Myung-Geun Song (Hanwha Defense Systems )

13:30 Performance Analysis of Passive Compulsators used for EML Application with Different Compensation Shield Thickness - Apurva Kulkarni (Indian Institute of Science)

13:30 Studies of pulsed electro plasticity in metals - Bucur Novac (Loughborough University)

13:30 Characteristics of Discharge Plasma in Liquid using less than 3 kV - Masahiro Hosono (Iwate University)

13:30 Mathematical Design of a Pulsed Power Induction Coilgun System using Taguchi Method - Dinh-Vuong Le (Changwon National University)

13:30 ANALYSIS OF THREE-STATE REACTOR IN THE INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM BASED ON PULSED DISCHARGE PLASMA - Hongjun Xiang (Shijiazhuang Mechanical Engineering College)

13:30 Application of High-Voltage Nanosecond Pulses to Surface Modification of Geomaterials - Igor Bunin (Institute of Comprehensive Exploitation of Mineral Resources, RAS)

13:30 Analysis of the sequential discharge characteristics of a parallel-type pulsed power supply with an inductance load - Byungha Lee (Agency for Defense Development)

13:30 Pulsed plasma chemical synthesis of carbon-bearing nanocomposites based on silicon and titanium oxides - Fedor Konusov (National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University)

13:30 TRIGGER SYSTEM CHANGES FOR THE HERMES III ACCELERATOR - SEAN COFFEY (SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORY)

13:30 High temperature materials for spraying of anti-corrosion coatings - Oleg Chizhko

13:30 EXPLORATION OF THE HIGH SPEED PROCESSES IN DESIGNING OF PULSED ELECTROTECHNOLOGIES - Elchin Gurbanov ("Azersu" OJSC)

13:30 Inductive-Capacitive Hybrid Pulsed Power Supply for Energy Recovery - Xukun Liu (Tsinghua University)

13:30 Triggering Strategy of Railgun Power Supply for the Accurate Control of the Armature Muzzle Velocity  - Xinyue Chang (Tsinghua University)

13:30 Numerical Analysis on the Resistive Overlay Rail of Electromagnetic Launcher using Finite Element Method - Sanghyuk An (Agency for Defense Development)

13:30 Energy Control of Pulsed Power using Embedded System and Magnetic Pulsed Compression Circuits - Masahiro Akiyama (Iwate University)

13:30 An All Solid-State Nanosecond pulse generator for the waste water treatment - Junfeng Rao (University of Shanghai for Science and Technology)

13:30 Magneto-forming studies at Loughborough University - Bucur Novac (Loughborough University)

13:30 Comparison of Bubbles due to Frequency Change and Electrode Direction in High Repetitive Plasma in Water - Kazuki Kimura (Iwate University)

13:30 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TIME SEQUENCE FOR THE HIGH-SPEED METAL JET UNDER AXIAL STRONG PULSED MAGNETIC FIELD - Hongjun Xiang (Shijiazhuang Mechanical Engineering College)

13:30 NOVEL PULSED POWER SYSTEM FOR INDUCTIVE OUTPUT TUBES - Francisco Cabaleiro Magallanes (Advanced Oncotherapy PLC)

13:30 Preparation of Plasma Activated Water by Gas-Jet assisted Nanosecond Pulsed Discharge in the Water - Yun Sik Jin (Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute)

13:30 Design and Experiment Study of a Novel Electrothermal Pulsed Plasma Thruster for Space Applications - Ruoyu Han (Xi’an Jiaotong University)

13:30 An Experimental Facility Design of Pulsed Inductive Thrusters - Bixuan Che (National University of Defense Technology)

13:30 RONS detection in plasma activated water - W.F.L.M. Hoeben (Eindhoven University of Technology)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Hall 4 / Cambridge
Contributions

13:30 Skin effect and magnetization of strap toroid magnetic core of pulse transformer - Boris Fridman (Efremov Institute of Electrophysical Apparatus)

13:30 DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF A 200kA, 10/350μs LIGHTNING IMPULSE CURRENT GENERATOR SWITCH MODULE - John Koutsoubis (Technological Education Institute (TEI) of Sterea Ellada)

13:30 The evolution of the plasma in triggered vacuum switch - Park Wung Hoa (PAL)

13:30 Design and calibration of a 3-D lightning current sensor - Antoine DE FERRON (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France)

13:30 Correlating Cygnus Diagnostics to Machine Reliability - Bernard Meehan (NSTec)

13:30 Multi-physical Fields Simulation and Structural Design for Energy Storage Coils with Brooks-type geometry - Shangang Ma ( Qinghai University)

13:30 CONTAMINATION PERFORMANCE OF HIGH VOLTAGE OUTDOOR INSULATORS IN HARSH MARINE POLLUTION ENVIRONMENT - Muhammad Majid Hussain

13:30 Modeling BipolarMarx Generators for Maximum Pulse Repetition Rate Estimation - Hiren Canacsinh (ISEL/INESC-ID/GIA2P2)

13:30 A NEW EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT OF HIGH-VOLTAGE PULSE TRANSFORMER AND AN ACCURATE METHOD TO MEASURE IT’S PARAMETERS - Xian LIU (Institute of Electronic Engineering, CAEP)

13:30 Reconfigurable High Voltage Load for Pulsed Power Applications - Matthew Kim (Texas Tech University)

13:30 Techniques to generate high-voltage oscillations using a single-shot power supply - Bucur Novac (Loughborough University)

13:30 Benchmarking Multi-Fluid Plasma Electromagnetic Models for Pulsed Power Applications - Kris Beckwith (Tech-X Corp.)

13:30 Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study of Barium Titanate Nanoparticles: Improving Fundamental Understanding of Pulsed Power Component Materials - Renee Van Ginhoven (AFRL)

13:30 Design of Trigger System for Large LTD Facility - Zhou Liangji

13:30 Development of a coaxial switched oscillator - Bucur Novac (Loughborough University)

13:30 Development of High Performance Pulse Power Generator using FPGA and Arduino - Seiya Komatsudaira (Iwate University)

13:30 2016 Cygnus Refurbishment - Paul Flores (National Security Technologies, LLC)

13:30 Field-Distortion Air-Insulated Switches for Next-Generation Pulsed-Power Accelerators - Matthew Wisher (Sandia National Laboratories)

13:30 Multi-Pulse Nanosecond Electrical Breakdown in Perfluorinated Liquids at 140 kV - Ivan Punanov (Institute of Electrophysics UD RAS)

13:30 SOLID STATE LASER TRIGGERING SYSTEM FOR THE HERMES-III ACCELERATOR - Chris Grabowski (Sandia National Laboratories)

13:30 The Influence of Epoxy Encapsulation on the Lifetime of High Voltage Ceramic Capacitors - Ruoyu Han (Xi’an Jiaotong University)

13:30 HIGH CURRENT SENSING THROUGH FARADAY ROTATION OF POLARIZED LIGHT OF VARYING WAVELENGTHS IN FIBERS - Sean Coffey (SNL)

13:30 NEW EMBEDDED NANOSECOND PULSE GENERATOR BASED ON SPARK GAP AND IGBT - Yahia Achour (Military university of technologies warsaw)

13:30 A Novel Technique for Fault and Lifetime Self-Diagnosis of Closed Transition Transfer Switch using Dual Lines - Sewan Heo (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute)

13:30 Pulsed Power Generators Based on Inductive Storage and Skin-Effect Opening Switches (Energy Correlation and Technical Applications) - Oleg Egorov (TRINITI)

13:30 Helical Pulse-Forming Transmission Line Stack for Compact Pulsed Power Applications - Design and Simulation - Edward L. Ruden (Air Force Research Laboratory)

13:30 Study on Surface Trap and Vacuum Surface Flashover Characteristics of Typical Polymeric Materials - Chengyan Ren (Institute of Electrical Engineering, CAS)

13:30 The performance of a prototype sealed-off triggered vacuum switch - Byung-Joon Lee (Pohang Accelerator Laboratory)

13:30 Electrical Treeing Phenomenon under Rippled Fields in HVDC Cable Insulation - M. Azizian Fard (Glasgow Caledonian University)
14:30 Coffee/Tea Break: Sponsored by AWE
Coffee/Tea Break: Sponsored by AWE
14:30 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 17:30
Room: Oxford Hall
Contributions

15:00 Inertial confinement fusion and other applications enabled by high energy excimer laser technologies - Tom Mehlhorn (Naval Research Laboratory)

15:30 Pulsed power performance of the Z machine: ten years after the upgrade - Mark Savage (Sandia National Laboratories)

15:45 MagLIF performance on the Z-machine: simulations of present and future experiments - Stephen Slutz (Sandia National Laboratories)

16:00 Pulsed Power Projects within the National Ignition Facility - Glen James (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

16:15 First Measurements of Negative Particles Contributing to Current Loss in Z-Machine Post-Hole Convolute - Derek Lamppa (Sandia National Laboratories)

16:30 Fusion Ignition Driven by Pulse Power - GE LI (Institute of Plasma physics, CAS)

16:45 Design of a 5-MA 100-ns Z-pinch accelerator based on linear transformer driver - Lin Zhou (Inst. Nuclear Physics & Chemistry)

17:00 Pulsed power developments at First light Fusion - Paul Holligan (First Light Fusion, UK)

17:15 Magnetic-Field Driver for Magnetized Plasma – Laser Experiments on the Z Beamlet Laser Facility - K. W. Struve (Sandia National Laboratories)
15:00 - 17:30
Room: Stanmer
Contributions

15:00 Modular, Highly Dynamic and Ultra-Low Ripple Arbitrary Current Source for Kicker Magnets and Plasma Research - Georgios Tsolaridis (ETH Zurich)

15:15 Compact energy storage with a high-power pulsed MHD generator - Gennady Shvetsov (RAS)

15:30 Multilevel Voltage Hysteresis Modulation and Control for High Voltage Modulators - Mikhail Slepchenkov (Tri-Alpha Energy Inc.)

15:45 PARALLELED IDENTICAL MARX GENERATORS DRIVING A KLYSTRON THROUGH A PULSE TRANSFORMER IN A RADIATION ENVIRONMENT - Christopher Yeckel (Stangenes Industries)

16:15 A soft Switch circuit to improve the efficiency of a solid-state Marx generator - liqing tong (Fudan University)

16:30 The changes of Inductors’ inductances and resistances with frequency in Inductive Pulse Power Supply - Zhen Li (Tsinghua University)

16:45 Status of a 140 kV Solid State Marx modulator - Bruno Cassany (CEA (FR))

17:00 A HYBRID BOUNCER SYSTEM FOR HIGHLY REPEATABLE AND PRECISE KLYSTRON MODULATORS - Xavier Bonnin (CERN)
15:00 - 17:30
Room: Preston
Contributions

15:00 Development of a 0.6 MV ultra-compact magnetic core pulsed transformer for high power applications - Laurent PECASTAING (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France)

15:30 Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Off-the-Shelf V-dot Sensors - Peter Senior (Loughborough University)

15:45 PUSHING DIELECTRICS TO THE LIMIT - SELF-HEALING METALIZED FILM CAPACITORS FOR HIGH ENERGY DENSITY - Joel Ennis (NWL)

16:15 Evaluation of the Impact of Drive Impedance on the Performance of Spark Gap Switches - Joshua Leckbee (Sandia National Laboratories)

16:30 Characterization of Individual Pulsed Power Modules on the Saturn Accelerator - Nathan Joseph (Sandia National Laboratories)

17:00 Cygnus Precision Dosimetry – Calibration and Measurements - Eugene Ormond (Sandia National Laboratories)

17:15 First Test of an Aerogel Cherenkov Detector for Characterizing the Cygnus X-ray Source - Mandie Gehring (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
19:00 Women In Science and Engineering Reception
Women In Science and Engineering Reception
19:00 - 20:30
Tuesday, 20 June 2017

08:15

08:15 - 08:45
Room: Oxford Hall
08:45
08:45 - 09:45
Room: Oxford Hall
Contributions

08:45 SOLID-STATE PULSED POWER BASED ON SEMICONDUCTOR OPENING SWITCHES - Sergei Rukin (Institute of Electrophysics)
09:45 Coffee/Tea Break: Sponsored by AWE
Coffee/Tea Break: Sponsored by AWE
09:45 - 10:00
10:00
10:00 - 12:30
Room: Preston
Contributions

10:00 Conceptual design of a 900-TW pulsed-power accelerator driven by impedance-matched Marx generators - William Stygar (Sandia National Laboratories)

10:30 A Fast Rise Time Air Insulated Linear Transformer Driver for High Energy Density Physics - Casey Rodgers

10:45 Pulse Width Lengthening Technique for Compact Pulsed Power Generator - Zicheng Zhang (National University of Defense Technology)

11:00 Experiments on the Clam Shell Magnetically Insulated Transmission Line (CSMITL2) on Saturn - Ben Ulmen (Sandia National Laboratories)

11:15 Square Pulse LTD Stage Based on Simplified Pulse Forming Network - Zhou Liangji (Institute of Fluid Physics, CAEP)

11:30 Status of Linear Transformer Driver Facilities for High Energy Density Physics Experiments at the University of Michigan - R. D. McBride (University of Michigan)

11:45 A bipolar, high repetition rate nanosecond pulse generator based on Blumlein-line and TLT - changhao bian (Chongqing University)

12:00 Power Amplification with Static and Dynamic Load Current Multipliers - A.S. Chuvatin (Ecole Polytechnique, France)

12:15 Impedance matching of pulsed power accelerator for megajoule-class dynamic-material-physics experiments - Jiang Jihao (Institute of Fluid Physics, CAEP)
10:00 - 12:30
Room: Stanmer
Contributions

10:00 Remote generation of intense pulsed electric fields in water - Peter Senior (Loughborough University)

10:15 AN INVESTIGATION OF PULSED FILAMENT CURRENTS IN DIELECTRIC BARRIER DISCHARGES WITH MESHED ELECTRODES - Tao Wang

10:30 Investigation of Underwater Shock Wave Intensity in Different Electrical Breakdown Discharge Modes - Siwei Liu (HUST)

10:45 Marx Generators for Electroporation Devices - Martin Sack (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

11:15 PULSED CORONA DISCHARGE FOR HYDROGEN PEROXIDE PRODUCTION - Yiyi Zhao (University of Strathclyde)

11:30 A testbed for an augmented railgun to be powered by superconducting coils - Markus Schneider (ISL)

11:45 Measurements on Combined 12.5/17.5 kV Prototype Inductive Adder for the CLIC DR Kickers - Janne Holma (CERN)

12:00 Advantages of pulsed power driven transient plasmas. - Guus Pemen (Eindhoven University of Technology)
10:00 - 12:30
Room: Oxford Hall
Contributions

10:00 Fusion Reactor Based on the Inductively Driven Metal Liner Compression of an FRC Target - John Slough (University of Washington)

10:30 Axial magnetic field injection on scaled-down MagLIF platforms - Pierre Gourdain (University of Rochester)

10:45 Isentropic Compression Experiments on the PTS Facility: Numerical Design, Simulation and Analyses - Yang Zhang (Institute of Applied Physics of Computational Mathematics)

11:00 ICE-16, A DEMONSTRATOR FOR AN UPGRADE OF GEPI DRIVER, TOWARDS ISENTROPIC COMPRESSION EXPERIMENTS AT 6 MA, 1 MICROSECOND LEVEL - Martial Toury (CEA Gramat)

11:15 CONDENSED MATTER, ELECTROMAGNETIC, LINER-IMPACTORS FOR SHOCK WAVE AND WARM DENSE MATTER APPLICATIONS - Robert Reinovsky (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:30 PHELIX Driven Study of the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability in Tin in Cylindrical Geometry - Christopher Rousculp (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:00 FLYER ACCELERATION BY MAGNETIC PRESSURE ON ANGARA 5-1 INSTALLATION - Svetlana Tkachenko (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology)

12:15 Advances in Electromagnetic Flux-compression Research - Zhongyu Zhou (Institute of Fluid Physics, CAEP)
12:30 Lunch Break: Sponsored by ITHPP
Lunch Break: Sponsored by ITHPP
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Regency
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Hall 4 / Cambridge
Contributions

13:30 PLASMA FORMATION PROCESSES AT THE SURFACE OF THE DOUBLE-LAYER CONDUCTORS IN A FAST-RISING MEGAGAUSS MAGNETIC FIELDS - Rina Baksht (Institute of High Current Electronics)

13:30 Helical magneto-cumulative generator to power plasma focus chamber - Vasily Demidov (Russian Federal Nuclear Center – VNIIEF)

13:30 Capabilities of Gamma facility to study material properties in the range of warm dense matter and pressure up to 100 GPa. - Sergey Kuznetsov (Russian Federal Nuclear Center)

13:30 Modern radiographic complexes based on ironless pulsed betatrons. Conception of radiographic complex for small-angle tomography. - Oleg Shamro

13:30 RESULTS OF OVERMASS Z-PINCH IMPLOSION IN EXPERIMENT WITH MAGNETO-CUMULATIVE GENERATOR - Boris Repin (Russian Federal Nuclear Center – VNIIEF)

13:30 SOME CAPABILITIES OF MAGNETIC IMPLOSION OF HIGH-VELOCITY CONDENSED-MATTER LINERS IN THE ALT-3 DRIVER - Anatoly Buyko (RFNC)

13:30 GeV-positron beams as a novel branch of the experimental basis for HEDP. - Vladimir Gorev (NRC"Kurchatov Institute")

13:30 The pulsed plasma accelerator with focusing electrodes experiments - Anuar Zhukeshov (Al-Farabi Kazakh Aational University)

13:30 Surface Current Density Distribution Measurements of an Electrically Exploded Foil via B-dot Probe Array Data Inversion, Revised - Edward L. Ruden (Air Force Research Laboratory)

13:30 RADIOGRAPHIC RESEARCH OF THE METAL-PUFF PLASMA JETS FORMED BY THE VACUUM ARC DISCHARGE - Alexander Rousskikh (Institute of High Current Electronics)

13:30 The study of three-dimensional compression of wire arrays at the Angara-5-1 facility. - Arkadii Gritsuk (SRC RF TRINITI, Troitsk)

13:30 Scaled DC Lifetime, Test and Evaluation of Advanced Nanocomposite Materials for Compact High Voltage Capacitors - Randy Curry (University of Missouri)

13:30 Effects of the Transport Properties of Gaseous Medium on Arc Behaviors in a Supersonic Nozzle - Jinling Zhang (Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University)

13:30 The efficiency of the pulsed power input in the limited plasma diode - Yaroslav Hrechko (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine)

13:30 OVERHEATING INSTABILITY OF A THIN CONDUCTOR WITH RESPECT TO STRATIFICATION - Sergey Garanin (Russian Federal Nuclear Center - VNIIEF)

13:30 A numerical plasma model of DBD Xenon Light source for VUV Radiation Emission - Halima LOUKIL (LPPMCA, ALGERIE)

13:30 A portable X-pinch driver for hard X-ray radiography, diffraction and absorption measurements - Simon Bland (Imperial College London)

13:30 Implosion of shock wave generated by an underwater electrical explosion of spherical wire array - Sergey Efimov (Technion)

13:30 Experimental simulation of primordial nucleosynthesis nuclear processes by applying high-powered lasers. - Alexey Lobanov (Central Research Institute of Machine Building)

13:30 Hydride lithium compression investigation in the megabar area by means of ultrahigh magnetic field pressure of the generator MC-1 - Alexander Bykov (Russian Federal Nuclear Center)

13:30 Disk magneto-cumulative generator with opening switch of large diameter - Yuri Vlasov (Russian Federal Nuclear Center – VNIIEF)

13:30 An Oil-Free Compact and Portable X-Pinch Radiation Source: Overview and Radiation Performance - Rick Spielman (Idaho State University)

13:30 Measuring the compression velocity of a Z pinch in an axial magnetic field - Rina Baksht (IHCE)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Hall 4 / Cambridge
Contributions

13:30 Signals from Cygnus - Hoai-Tam Truong (National Security Technologies, LLC)

13:30 Development and testing of high-voltage cells for 2 kA, 20 MeV Linear Induction Accelerator - Aleksandr Akimov (BINP)

13:30 Pulse forming networks development for a 60-380 ns Pulsed Power Supply for 2 kA, 20 MeV Linear Induction Accelerator - Aleksandr Akimov (BINP)

13:30 Prototype Development and Testing of the Alternate Topology HVCM modulator to support the Proton Power Upgrade (PPU) at SNS. - Dennis Solley (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

13:30 Ion source for shallow implantation - Noriyuki Sakudo (Kanazawa Institute of Technology)

13:30 ALTERNATIVE CONFIGURATION AND TIMING CONTROL FOR BEAM CHOPPING SYSTEM AT THE SNS LINAC - Vladimir Peplov (ORNL)

13:30 250kV - 60ns double pulses generator as an induction cell driver for a flash radiography LIA - Baptiste Cadilhon (CEA)

13:30 Plasma Characterization in a Repetitively Pulsed Electron Beam Diode* - Matthew Myers (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)

13:30 Development of a 100 kV Pulse Generator for Driving an Electron Scanner used in Proton Beam Profile Measurements - Ben Morris (ORNL)

13:30 Single – triple pulse Power supply for 2 kA, 20 MeV Linear Induction Accelerator - Aleksandr Akimov (BINP)

13:30 Observation of Beam Spot Dynamics During LIA Shot - Yuriy Trunev (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)

13:30 Numerical study of a 1 MV Linear Transformer Driver - R. Maisonny (CEA, DAM, GRAMAT)

13:30 Long pulse electron accelerator GESA-SOFIE: A numerical study of the beam characteristics - Renate Fetzer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

13:30 RF System of Linear Accelerator for Natural Rubber Research - Jatuporn Saisut (Chiang Mai University)

13:30 Numerical Simulations of Electron Beam Neutralization by Backstreaming Ions in LIA - Valerii Danilov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)

13:30 Generation of anode plasma and its effects on diode characteristics - Hong Wan

13:30 Plasma Generation by a Pulsed Nanosecond Discharge on a Surface of Porous Dielectric Saturated with Liquid - Ivan Punanov (Institute of Electrophysics UD RAS)

13:30 Voltage Stability Improvement and Analysis of Pulsed Klystron Modulator for RF Linac Applications - Sung-Duck Jang (Pohang Accelerator Laboratory/POSTECH)

13:30 Modeling and experimental characterization of the plasma produced by velvet cathode in a linear induction accelerator - J.M. Plewa (CEA, DAM, GRAMAT)

13:30 Researching On the Power Sources Decoupling at IFP’s Dielectric Wall Accelerator - MAO YE (CAEP/IFP)

13:30 Time-dependent Energy Deposition Characteristics on Different Anode Position of a Weak-pinched Diode - Yang Hu

13:30 Long Pulse and Positive Polarity Operation of a Reflex Triode at the Saturn Accelerator - Ben Ulmen (Sandia National Laboratories)

13:30 The performance results of the LIA in double pulse mode - Dmitrii Starostenko (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Hall 4 / Cambridge
Contributions

13:30 Downhole generator based on a line pulse transformer for electro pulse drilling. - Molchanov Denis (IHCE SB RAS)

13:30 The Improvement of Energy Efficiency by Generating Hydroxyl Radical on the Surface of Droplets for the Water Treatment Using Pulsed Power Discharge - Yoshihiro Sato (Yamagata University)

13:30 High Frequency Irreversible Electroporation Ablate Tissues with Plate Electrodes Inhibiting Muscle Contraction - Shoulong Dong (Chongqing University)

13:30 RESEARCH ON THE ARMATURE VELOCITY CONTROL BASED ON COMPLICATED DYNAMIC MODEL - Zhenchun Wang (Yanshan university)

13:30 Light emission and shock wave characteristics of metal wires exploded in water with small hydrostatic pressures - Ruoyu Han (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

13:30 Mechanism of metal removal from CD-ROM by pulsed power - Tomohiko Yamashita (Kumamoto University)

13:30 The effect of current rising rate on the deposited energy and light emission intensity characteristic of a capillary based pulsed plasma thruster - Ruoyu Han (Xi’an Jiaotong University)

13:30 TRANSIENT THERMAL EFFECTS AND RAIL DAMAGE IN ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHING - Lijie Jia (Yanshan University)

13:30 Effect of Discharge Gas on Water Treatment Using Nanosecond Pulsed Power Discharges - Yudai Shimomura (Tokushima University)

13:30 A High Energy Hybrid Pulsed Power System for Multi-coil Magnet - Zhangfei Zhao (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

13:30 Consideration of Pulse-Width Effects of Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Fields Application on Cancer Cell - Yasuo Yamamoto (Tokushima University)

13:30 Power transmission through the long coaxial cable for the underwater pulsed spark discharge - Kyoung-Jae Chung (Seoul National University)

13:30 A Flexible Capacitive Pulsed Power Supply to the High Magnetic Fields for the Magnetization Measurement - Zhangfei Zhao (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

13:30 The Optimization of the Treatment Planning for Achieving Complete Ablation of Human Liver Tumor during Irreversible Electroporation by Genetic Algorithm - Shoulong Dong (Chongqing University)

13:30 Exploratory study of shock wave production mechanisms during the process of underwater electrical wire explosion - Ruoyu Han (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

13:30 115kV solid state long pulse modulator for the European spallation source (ESS) - Michael Jaritz

13:30 The matching of the coaxial cylindrical dielectric barrier discharge ozone reactor and the sub-microsecond pulsed power - YIFAN WANG (FUDAN UNIVERSITY)

13:30 Experimental Characterization of Tissue Electroporation Based on the Feedback Signal of a New Measurement Method - Hongmei Liu (Chongqing University)

13:30 A Novel Design of Repetitive Pulsed Magnetic Stimulator - Xiao Fang ( Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

13:30 Effect of Reactor Diameter on NOx Treatment Using Nanosecond Pulsed Powers - Shingo Ishino

13:30 NITRIC OXIDE (NO) REMOVAL AND PULSED DISCHARGE CURRENT ANALYSIS IN VARIOUS NO, N2, O2 AND H2O GAS MIXTURES - Linghe Zhou (University of Strathclyde)

13:30 Molecular Dynamics Assessment of Bipolar Electric Pulses on Lipid Bilayers - Allen Garner (Purdue University)

13:30 Upgrade of Triggering System of the SPS Beam Dumping System at CERN - Janusz Pawel Rodziewicz (Ministere des affaires etrangeres et europeennes (FR))
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Hall 4 / Cambridge
Contributions

13:30 An Analysis of Strike and Restrike Characteristics of the Exploding Film Phenomenon Under Different Temperature and Pressure Conditions - James Nick Allen (University at Buffalo)

13:30 Transmission-line-circuit simulations of Z with an ion-diode current-loss mechanism - Brian Hutsel (Sandia National Laboratories)

13:30 Some scaling rules for ferrite-loaded coaxial lines - Claudio Motta (University of Sao Paulo)

13:30 Pulsed Power Calibration and Test Benches at Epure - Alain Georges (CEA)

13:30 The triggered vacuum switch test based on the electromagnetic pulse welding - Xiaoyu Wang

13:30 Optimal Design of High Frequency Transformer Based on Fe-based Amorphous - Yun Xu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

13:30 Preliminary pulsed power design of an induction injector for radiographic applications. - Bruno Cassany (CEA (FR))

13:30 The Phenomena of Abnormal Discharges in Pseduospark Switch - Ruoyu Han (Xi’an Jiaotong University)

13:30 Effect of Electrode Composition on the Partial Discharge Activity of a Pre-Stretched Dielectric Elastomer Actuator - Andrea Martinez (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York)

13:30 A novel electrode material for spark switches - Jiawei Wu (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

13:30 Development of a novel insulation aging test system based on the high-voltage high-frequency square pulse generator - Zhou Zuo (Chongqing University)

13:30 The measurement of pulsed magnetic field by a non-contact differential ring - Wenting Zhou

13:30 Nanosecond repetitive pulsed discharges under turbulent flow in atmospheric air flow - Miao Tang (Harbin Institute of Technology)

13:30 Experimental Study of Dielectric Insulator Behaviour under High Voltage Pulse - Antoine de Ferron (Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France)

13:30 A 50 T high-stability flat-top pulsed magnetic field energized by a 100 MW pulsed generator-rectifier power supply with parameters self-adjusting model predictive control - Huang Yongheng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

13:30 Impulse Breakdown Strength of Zinc Oxide / Epoxy Resin Nanocomposites - Paul Turner (University of Strathclyde)

13:30 Characterisation of a Corona-stabilised Switch in Alternative Gas Mixtures - Ruairidh Macpherson (University of Strathclyde)

13:30 The Behaviour of Surface Discharges on a Liquid Nanocomposite Interface - Martin Given (University of Strathclyde )

13:30 Long Term Evaluation of GaN HEMT under Overcurrent Operations - Matthew Kim (Texas Tech University)
14:30 Coffee/Tea Break: Sponsored by AWE
Coffee/Tea Break: Sponsored by AWE
14:30 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 17:30
Room: Stanmer
Contributions

15:00 Electronic steering of radiation beam by phase control in the arrays of uncoupled nonlinear transmission lines and Cherenkov-type HPM oscillators - Vladislav Rostov (Institute of High Current Electronics)

15:30 Analysis of Nonlinear Gyromagnetic Line Operation Using LLG Equation* - Edl Schamiloglu (University of New Mexico)

15:45 A Battery-Powered, 60-kJ, 6-RPS Rep-Rate Pulsed Power System - Brett Huhman (US Naval Resarch Laboratory)

16:15 HV Cables for Remotely Located Pulsed Magnetron Applications - Joe Hutley (e2v)

16:30 Design of a 700-kV Modulator for High-Power Radiofrequency Sources above 200 GHz - Alessandro Lampasi (ENEA)

16:45 Development of a solid-state high-voltage switch device for an insulation oil-filled klystron modulator - Takahiro Inagaki (RIKEN SPring-8 center)

17:00 AN/TPS-43/70/75 Transmitter Modernization Kits - Michael Kempkes (Diversified Technology)

17:15 Rearch of compact repetitive pulsed power system based on Marx generator - Shirong Hao (IFP, CAEP)
15:00 - 17:30
Room: Oxford Hall
Contributions

15:00 Direct observation of electrothermal instability structures in the skin layer of an intensely Ohmically heated conductor - Thomas Awe (Sandia National Laboratories)

15:15 Results of comparison between underwater explosions of Cu and Al wires and investigation of symmetry of a shock wave generated by a cylindrical wire array explosion - David Yanuka (Technion - Israel)

15:30 Preconditioned wire array Z-pinch driven by a double-pulse current generator - Jian Wu (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

15:45 Generation of cylindrically convergent shockwaves in water on the MACH facility - Simon Bland (Imperial College London)

16:15 Recent progress in implosion of a quasi-spherical shock waves and x-ray imaging of exploding wires - Mikhail Nitishinskiy (Technion, Israel)

16:30 Cygnus Performance on Five Subcritical Experiments - John Smith (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

16:45 Magnetic-field evolution in Z-pinch implosion with preembedded axial magnetic field - Dmitry Mikitchuk (Weizmann Institute of Science)

17:00 OVERVIEW OF THE EXPERIMENTAL DATA ON THE USE OF A VACUUM ARC DISCHARGE FOR Z-PINCHES - Alexander Rousskikh (Institute of High Current Electronics)

17:15 Experimental Platform Development for Studying Vacuum Power Flow Physics at the Sandia Z Accelerator - George Laity (Sandia National Laboratories)
15:00 - 17:30
Room: Preston
Contributions

15:00 Solid State Spark Gap and Ignitron Replacements - John Waldron (Silicon Power)

15:30 HIGH-VOLTAGE PICOSECOND-RANGE AVALANCHE SWITCHING OF SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES WITHOUT PN-JUNCTIONS - Pavel Rodin (Ioffe Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences)

15:45 The Progression of Silicon Carbide Power Devices Under The Army’s High Voltage Power Technology Program - Miguel Hinojosa (Army Research Laboratory)

16:00 Study on the high-power semi-insulating GaAs PCSS with quantum well structure - Chongbiao Luan

16:15 Narrow Pulse Evaluation of 15 kV SiC MOSFETs and IGBTs - Stephen Bayne (Texas Tech University)

16:30 INVESTIGATION OF FAST THYRISTOR SWITCHING MODULES TRIGGERED BY DIRECT OVERHEAD IGNITION - Rainer Bischoff (ISL)

17:00 Silvaco-based evaluation of 10 kV 4H-SiC MOSFET as a solid-state switch in narrow-pulse application - Bejoy Pushpakaran (Texas Tech University)
19:00 Night Out: i360
Night Out: i360
19:00 - 21:00
Wednesday, 21 June 2017
08:45
08:45 - 09:45
Room: Oxford Hall
Contributions

08:45 Plasma Physics Education and Research Enabled by Pulsed Power* - Ronald M. Gilgenbach (University of Michigan )
09:45 Coffee/Tea Break: Sponsored by AWE
Coffee/Tea Break: Sponsored by AWE
09:45 - 10:00
10:00
10:00 - 12:45
Room: Oxford Hall
Contributions

10:00 CALCULATION OF BREAKDOWN VOLTAGE OF GAS GAPS WITH ARBITRARY GEOMETRY ON EXAMPLES OF SPHERES AND TOROIDS - Alexander Pokryvailo (Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corp.)

10:15 Hybrid kinetic-liquid model of the nanosecond discharge initiated by runaway electrons - Vasily Kozhevnikov (Institute of High Current Electronics)

10:30 PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENT ON SHOCK WAVES GENERATED BY UNDERWATER ELECTRICAL EXPLOSION OF WIRES - Liuxia Li (Tsinghua University)

10:45 Space Plasma Generator for Controlled Enhancement of the Ionosphere - James Kim (Enig Associates, Inc.)

11:15 The research on the design method and pre-arcing characteristic of the pulsed discharge fuse - Chaoliang Jin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

11:30 Testing High Voltage (200kV) DC cable and feed-through designs in rep-rated modes* - MICHAEL MAZARAKIS (SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES)

11:45 Effects of Contamination Accumulation on The Surface Temperature Distribution of a Glass Insulator String - Chibuike Ilomuanya

12:00 Initial Experiments with the LANL “Ranchero-S” Flux Compression Generator - Erik Haroz (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:15 Partial Discharge in High Voltage DC Cables - Euan Morris (EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Power Networks and Smart Grids)
10:00 - 12:30
Room: Stanmer
Contributions

10:00 Status of the 1st Radiographic Axis of the Epure Facility - Alain Georges (CEA)

10:15 Investigations on Dual Pulse technologies for future upgrade of CEA flash X-rays LIA - Christophe Vermare (CEA)

10:30 Scorpius: The development of a new multi-pulse radiographic system - Mark Crawford (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:45 The MERLIN Induction Voltage Adder Radiographic Accelerator - Ken Thomas (AWE)

11:15 Design of compact and repetitive pulsed e-beam source - Fa-lun Song

11:30 Generation of Intense Pulsed X-ray and Repetitive Pulsed X-rays - Jianqiang Yuan (Institute of Fluid Physics, CAEP)

11:45 Analysis and improvement of a folded gigawatt intense electron-beam accelerators - Yi Yin (National University of Defense Technologh)

12:00 Multi-Pulse Diode-Isolated-Blumlein Induction-Cell Drivers - Chris Rose (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:15 Testing and Evaluation of High Voltage Diode Stacks for multi-pulse Linear Induction Accelerators - Kalpak Dighe (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
10:00 - 12:30
Room: Preston
Contributions

10:00 Integrated Module Based on Reversely Switched Dynistor (RSD) and Its Stress Analysis - Lin Liang

10:15 Solid-State Pulsed Power System with GaAs-PCSS for Dielectric Wall Accelerator - Yi Liu (China Academy of Engineering Physics)

10:30 Dielectric Breakdown of Vaporized Organic Carbonates - Charles Nybeck (University of Texas at Arlington)

10:45 A Modularized High Power Solid-State Switch for Pulsed Electric Fields (PEF) Applications - Xiaotian Chen (Zhejiang University)

11:00 A 100kV, IGBT switched, spark gap trigger generator - Paul W. Smith (First Light Fusion)

11:15 OPTICAL NONLINEAR ABSORPTION PROPERTIES OF 4H-SIC—EXPERIMENT AND MODEL - Vincent Meyers (Texas Tech University)

11:30 Current progress on a fast semiconductor-based Marx generator for a pulsed electron beam device - Martin Hochberg (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology )

12:00 Toward the Development of an Efficient Bulk Semi-Insulating GaN Photoconductive Switch - Vincent Meyers (Texas Tech University)

12:15 Impulsive Dielectric Performance of HFO-gas Mixtures - Igor Timoshkin (University of Strathclyde)
12:30 Lunch Break: Sponsored IHTPP
Lunch Break: Sponsored IHTPP
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Regency
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Hall 4 / Cambridge
Contributions

13:30 Heavy Pulse Currents LTT Switch Unit - Boris Fridman (Efremov Institute of Electrophysical Apparatus)

13:30 Design of a 30MJ capacitor-based pulsed power supply for EML - Zhenxiao Li (Nanjing University of Science and Technology)

13:30 Skin-parameter of massive conductors and transients in electrical circuits of pulse power facilities - Boris Fridman (Efremov Institute of Electrophysical Apparatus)

13:30 Design of Active Voltage Droop Compensator for Solid-State Long Pulse Modulator - Sung-Roc Jang (KOREA ELECTROTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE)

13:30 Optimization of High Frequency Transformer Based on Advanced Genetic Algorithm - Zhiting Yang (Zhejiang Sci-Tech University)

13:30 DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT CONTROL SYSTEM OF HIGH VOLTAGE PULSE POWER SUPPLY - WEIBIN LI (Southwestern Institute of Physics)

13:30 Improving high power precision Electron Beam and Ion Beam performance and reliability by improving High Voltage power quality - Martin Court (Advanced Energy)

13:30 Silvaco-based electrothermal simulation of 10 kV 4H-SiC p-i-n diode under pulsed condition - Bejoy Pushpakaran (Texas Tech University)

13:30 A High Power Charging Power Supply for Capacitive Pulsed Power System - Jun Zhou (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

13:30 Analysis and Design of a Series-Parallel Resonant Converter without Inductor Filter for use in High Voltage Capacitor Charger Applications - Youngseok Bae (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

13:30 Application of current charged pulse forming lines for generation of high voltage nanosecond pulses - Alexander Lyublinsky (Ioffe Insitute)

13:30 Research of distributed charge based on magnetic self-balance - Qianyu Zhou

13:30 Wide Injection Range OCVD System for Lifetime Spectroscopy Techniques - Shelby Lacouture (Texas Tech University)

13:30 A new synchronization method based on compensation of phase deviation for pulsed generator power supply - Yun Xu (Huazhong University of Science & Technology)

13:30 Solid state thyratron replacement switch feasibility - Gianfranco RAVIDÀ (CERN)

13:30 Zero average flux tracking algorithm for high frequency transformers used in long pulse applications - Max Collins (Lund University)

13:30 HIGH CURRENT PULSED POWER SUPPLIES FOR ST-40 SPHERICAL TOKAMAK - Bas Eikelboom (Jema Energy)

13:30 Design and Experiment of a 3-phase Series-Parallel Resonant Type High Voltage Capacitor Charger - Youngseok Bae (Agency for Defense Development)

13:30 Improving low power (30W to 250W average) pulsed power performance and reliability by improving High Voltage power quality - Gary Byfield (Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.) Martin Court (Advanced Energy)

13:30 Design of Time Sequence Discharging Control System for Pulse Power Supply Modules - Kun Liu (Institute of Electrical Engineering, CAS)

13:30 Evaluation of High Frequency Solid State Switches for Pulsed Power Applications Using a 12 kW Variable Voltage Testbed - Stephen Bayne (Texas Tech University)

13:30 A Novel Active Soft-Switching Converter with loss-less Snubber for MTEM Electromagnetic Transmitter - Xuhong Wang (Beijing University of Technology)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Hall 4 / Cambridge
Contributions

13:30 Design Optimization for 2kA, 2MeV Diode Injector - Yuan Hui Wu

13:30 SNS PROTON POWER UPGRADE REQUIREMENTS FOR MAGNET AND KICKER SYSTEMS - Robert Saethre (Oak Ridge National Lab)

13:30 CSNS Pulse Klystron High Voltage Power Supply System Overview and Performance Test - Jian Li (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS)

13:30 Emitted electron beams from velvet cathodes - Laurent Courtois (CEA)

13:30 Beam Breakup Simulation and Optimization for Induction Accelerator - Yuan Hui Wu

13:30 Using a full-sine septum power supply to study the top-up orbit disturbance at Taiwan light source - Ho-Ping Chang (NSRRC)

13:30 Status of the 3rd axis flash X-rays LIA of the EPURE facility - Christophe Vermare (CEA)

13:30 The L-3 Pulserad flash X-ray system simulation with LSP and CST PS code - Seung Ho Han (Agency for Defense Development)

13:30 A New Modification for RHIC Abort Kicker System - Jianlin Mi (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

13:30 Fast Magnetization of Amorphous Metallic Cores - Martin Taccetti (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

13:30 Status of a 140 keV electron source for high current linac - Bruno Cassany (CEA (FR))

13:30 Electrical and X-ray diagnostics on the NSTec 2-MA dense plasma focus system - Mark Savage (Sandia National Laboratories)

13:30 Multiple-Pulse High-Voltage Diode Isolation Testing for a Linear Induction Accelerator (LIA) - B Trent McCuistian (LANL)

13:30 AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING AND DATA DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR THE HERMES III ACCELERATOR - SEAN COFFEY (SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORY)

13:30 Modelling the mechanism of multipactor suppression through novel laser engineered structures - Jonathan Smith (Tech-X UK Ltd)

13:30 Upgrade of the Power Triggering System of the LHC Beam Dumping System - Lorane Allonneau (CERN)

13:30 Spectroscopic Comparison of Cable-Gun and Marshall-Gun Opening Switch Plasmas* - S. L. Jackson (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory)

13:30 Development of Bipolar Pulse Accelerator for High-Purity Intense heavy Ion Beam - Taro Honoki (Univ. of Toyama)

13:30 Monolithic Aluminum Nitride High Gradient Vacuum Insulators - Jon Pouncey (University on New Mexico)

13:30 Large area plasma electron emitter: Emission behavior in long pulse electron accelerator - Wladimir An (Germany)

13:30 A new radiographic source using a plasma opening switch and plasma-filled rod-pinch diode - Bruce Weber (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)

13:30 The ELI-NP Gamma Beam System: a New Facility for Nuclear Physics Research – Current Status - Piotr Tracz (ELI-NP/IFIN-HH)

13:30 Measurement of intense continuous and flash radiographic sources with Compton spectrometers - Amanda Gehring (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Hall 4 / Cambridge
Contributions

13:30 Ethylene treatment using nanosecond pulsed discharge - Yasuaki Torigoe (Kumamoto University)

13:30 Development of Pulse-Operated Penning Plasma Source for High-Speed Physical Vapor Deposition - Koichi Takaki (Iwate University)

13:30 Inactivation of Ralstonia solanacearum Using Pulse Discharge under Culture Solution in Hydroponics - Koichi Takaki (Iwate University)

13:30 Nanosecond pulsed discharge type ozonizer with cooling structure - Daichi Ikoma (Kumamoto University, Japan)

13:30 Multi-pulse Current Source for Highly Inductive Load - Bing Guo

13:30 Propagation characteristics of plasma ballet in laminar gas-fed atmospheric pressure plasma jet using double coaxial glass tube - Hiroaki Ito (Univ. of Toyama)

13:30 Application of Repetitive Pulse Power Supply in Rock Fracturing - Rongyao Fu (Institute of Electrical Engineering, CAS)

13:30 Temporal Profile of 100-200 kHz Band High-Power Inductively Coupled Impulse Sputtering Glow Plasma - Koichi Takak (Iwate University)

13:30 Assessment of microbial inactivation on fruit juices by nanosecond electric pulses - Allen Garner (Purdue University)

13:30 Study of Oil Extraction from Microalgae by Pulsed Power as a Renewable Source of Green Energy - Bahareh HOSSEINI

13:30 Control System and Diagnostic Tools of Pulsed Power Supply for TPS Pulsed Magnets - Ho-Ping Chang (NSRRC)

13:30 NON -DESTRUCTIVE COILS AND FIELD SHAPERS FOR HIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION, Yuri Livshitz, Amit Izar, PULSAR Ltd ISRAEL - Yuri Livshitz

13:30 A comparison of the effects of RF and pulsed DC nonthermal plasma jets on melanoma cell viability - Kyle Thompson (University at Buffalo)

13:30 Nanosecond Electric Pulses for Lipid Extraction from Microalgae - Mary Mulligan (Purdue University)

13:30 Preparation of thermo-sensitive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) film using KHz alternating current pulsed discharge - Xiaoliang Tang (Donghua University)

13:30 Pulsed Ultraviolet Light Decontamination of Artificially-Generated Microbiological Aerosols - Igor Timoshkin (University of Strathclyde)

13:30 Improved High Voltage Pulse Generator for Automated Insulator Fault Detection - Howard Sanders (Silicon Power Corporation)

13:30 Effect of Current Rising Rate on Ablation and Plasma Bulk Velocity in a Pulsed Plasma Thruster - Ruoyu Han (Xi’an Jiaotong University)

13:30 Influence of Oxygen Concentration on Ethylene Removal Efficiency - Koichi Takaki (Iwate University)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Hall 4 / Cambridge
Contributions

13:30 Transient Simulation of a High Voltage SiC Bipolar Power Device under High Action Operation - Miguel Hinojosa (Army Research Laboratory)

13:30 Design and simulation of magnetic switch and reset circuit for non-thermal water sterilize use - Masoume Amirbande (IUST)

13:30 Exploring current loss mechanisms on the Z accelerator using PIC/DSMC methods - Andrew Fierro (Sandia National Laboratories)

13:30 Design and Calibration for High-Frequency Magnetic Probe - Yuan Hui Wu

13:30 Development of low-impedance, variable pulse-width, high repetition-rate, 400 kV modulator - Jordan Chaparro (Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren)

13:30 Study of electrical breakdown properties of liquid dielectrics for compact pulsed power applications - Veda Prakash Gajula (Institute for Plasma Research)

13:30 Lifetime Prediction Testing of High Energy Density Metalized Film Capacitors - Seth Miller (SNL`)

13:30 STUDY OF OUTPUT CHARACTERS OF PULSE TRANSFORMER WITH DIFFERENT CLOSED MAGNETIC CIRCUIT - SAIBAL CHATTERJEE (NERIST, Deemed University)

13:30 Study on Surface Flashover Properties of PTFE by Ion Implantation - Weikang Zhao (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

13:30 Study on aerodynamic characteristics of electromagnetic rail launcher - Weikang Zhao (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

13:30 STUDY OF TRANSFORMER AND MOTOR WINDING UNDER PULSED POWER APPLICATION - ARIJIT BASURAY (NEO TELE-TRONIX PVT. LTD)

13:30 Optimized Solid-State Bipolar Marx Modulador with Resonant type Droop Compensation - Hiren Canacsinh (ISEL/INESC-ID/GIA2P2)

13:30 Development of a Multiple Megaampere, Pulsed Power Lab - Adam Schreiber (NSWC Dahlgren)

13:30 Surface flashover behaviour of insulating materials under impulsive electric fields in environmentally friendly gases - Athanasios Mermigkas (Univeristy of Strathclyde)

13:30 Magnetic Field Diffusion into Hollow Conductors with Walls on the Order of the Skin Depth - Tyler Buntin (Texas Tech University)

13:30 Dynamics of Audio Square Wave Plasmas: Insights for Plasma Cleaning of Vacuum Diode Electrodes - Ricky Tang (Sandia National Laboratories)

13:30 Secondary electron emission yield of Fluorinated Crosslinked Polystyrene - Bai-peng Song (Xi’an Jiaotong University)

13:30 Increasing the Voltage Droop Compensation Range in Generalized Bipolar Solid-State Marx Modulador - Hiren Canacsinh (ISEL/INESC-ID/GIA2P2)

13:30 The characteristics of the bus-bar of electromagnetic rail launcher - Zhao Ying (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

13:30 A Greater Than 6 MV Laser Triggered Gas Switch Used on Z - Nathan Wemple (Sandia National Laboratories)

13:30 Predetermination Partial Discharge Features in cables using Various Electrode Gaps in Air under AC voltage - Faisal Peer Mohamed (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK)
14:30 Coffee/Tea Break: Sponsored by AWE
Coffee/Tea Break: Sponsored by AWE
14:30 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 17:30
Room: Stanmer
Contributions

15:00 Power Supply Options for a Naval Railgun - Stephan Hundertmark (ISL)

15:30 Overview of Circuit Topologies for Inductive Pulsed Power Supplies - Xukun Liu (Tsinghua University)

15:45 Armature Shape Optimization of an Electromagnetic Launcher Using Genetic Algorithm - Doga Ceylan (Middle East Technical University)

16:00 Design strategies for a SiC Marx generator for a kicker magnet - Luis Redondo (ISEL Instituto Superior de Engenharia (PT))

16:15 Prospects for an optical Re-Triggering System for the LHC Beam Dumping System at CERN - Janusz Pawel Rodziewicz (CERN)

16:30 Launch efficiency and muzzle velocity accuracy enhancement with a 24MJ DES railgun - Ling Dai (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

16:45 Study on the Isolation of Multiple STRETCH Meat Grinder Modules - Hui Liu (Tsinghua University)

17:00 Pulsed Power Considerations Relating to EM Space Launch - Ian McNab (Emergent Power Solutions LLC)

17:15 ASELSAN EMFY-1 Electromagnetic Launcher: First Experiments - Mustafa Karagoz
15:00 - 17:30
Room: Preston
Contributions

15:00 Hydrogen spark gap performance after long-term storage under various gases - Paul White (MBDA)

15:15 Performance characteristics of spark gaps with hydrogen-nitrogen & hydrogen-argon gas mixtures - John Dolan (MBDA)

15:30 Characterisation of a triggered mid-plane spark gap with UV illumination - Paul White (MBDA)

15:45 Triggering of a High Pressure Air-filled High Voltage Spark Gap Switch Using Laser Induced Plasmas Resulting in Sub-nanosecond Jitter at Low Percentages of Self-Break* - Sean Simpson (Sandia National Laboratories)

16:15 Comparative study of laser triggered pressurized spark gaps - Thomas Maysonnave (ITHPP)

16:30 Pulsed Power Generators Based on Solid-State LTD Technology - Weihua Jiang (Nagaoka University of Technology)

17:00 Development of trigger circuit applied in high temperature of triggered vacuum switch - Lingfeng Xiang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

17:15 Effects of voltage rise rate on pulsed streamer discharge - Ryo Fujita (Kumamoto University)
15:00 - 17:30
Room: Dukes Suite
Contributions

15:00 PREDICTIVE MODELLING OF THE MERLIN SMP DIODE PERFORMANCE - David Goude (AWE)

15:15 Simulation and experimental characterization of a high power electron diode for linear induction accelerators - Plewa J.M. (CEA, DAM, GRAMAT)

15:30 Validation of gas-chemistry models for intense electron-beam induced gas breakdown* - Stephen Swanekamp (Naval Research Lab)

15:45 Development of Uniform Electron-Beam Sources for Materials Study* - David Hinshelwood (Naval Research Laboratory)

16:00 Electrons Loss Characteristics Study on Bremsstrahlung Reflex Triode - Zhongliang Huang (Tsinghua University)

16:15 Characterisation of the plasma filled rod pinch diode operation - James Macdonald (Imperial College London / AWE)

16:30 Repetitively Pulsed Cold Cathode Research in the NRL Plasma Physics Division - Frank Hegeler (Naval Research Laboratory)

17:00 Influence of Target Plasma on Electron Beam Focusing in LIA - Yuriy Trunev (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)

17:15 Effects of anode and cathode surface treatments on vacuum breakdown between metal electrodes with 50-ns high voltage pulses* - Raymond Allen (NRL)
18:00 Pre-Banquet Reception
Pre-Banquet Reception
18:00 - 18:45

18:45 Banquet
Banquet
18:45 - 21:30
Room: Oxford Hall
Thursday, 22 June 2017

08:00

08:00 - 09:00
Room: Oxford Hall
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Oxford Hall
Contributions

09:00 Multi-Scale Pulsed Power - Jane Lehr (University of New Mexico)
10:00 Coffee/Tea Break: Sponsored by AWE
Coffee/Tea Break: Sponsored by AWE
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 13:00
Room: Oxford Hall
Contributions

10:30 Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating Transmitter Opening Switch Upgrade - Michael Kempkes (Diversified Technology)

11:00 Circuit-PIC Coupled Model of 3D Simulation for Magnetically Insulated Transmission Line - Wei Luo (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

11:15 Magnetic Field Diffusion in Medium-Walled Conductors Using Finite Element Method (FEM) - Landon Collier (Texas Tech University)

11:30 Simulation and experimental study on thermal effect of electromagnetic pulse forming - Yan Zhou

11:45 HV Pulse transformer generalized equivalent circuit identification based on detailed mechanical structure - Sylvain Candolfi (LEEPCI Laval University)

12:00 High Voltage Crowbar for Protection of Marx Trigger Generator (MTG) Systems on Z - William White (Sandia National Laboratories)

12:30 30-100kV PLASTIC CASE CAPACITORS FOR LTD'S, MARX GENERATORS, AND OTHER PULSE POWER APPLICATIONS - Joel Ennis (NWL)
10:30 - 13:00
Room: Stanmer
Contributions

10:30 A compact 210-kV, 10-kJ/s capacitor charger for industrial applications - Alexander Pokryvailo (Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corp.)

11:00 Design of a resonant DC-DC Converter for High Voltage Applications - Claudio Motta (University of Sao Paulo)

11:15 Compact Power Supply with Integrated Energy Storage and Recovery Capabilities for Arbitrary Currents up to 2 kA - Alessandro Lampasi (ENEA)

11:30 A constant power capacitor charging structure for flicker mitigation in high power long pulse klystron modulators - Max Collins (Lund University)

12:00 Different Control Techniques for Active Power Filter for Harmonic Elimination & Power Quality Improvement - IRFAN ALI (Techno NJR Institute of Technology)

12:15 Incorporating Saturation in Permanent-Magnetic Synchronous Generator Modeling for All-Electric Ship Applications - Francis Okou (Royal Military College of Canada)

12:30 400 kV, 400 mA Power Supply - Michael Kempkes (Diversified Technology)
10:30 - 13:00
Room: Preston
Contributions

10:30 High voltage characteristics of novel 3-D printing techniques and materials - John Shannon (NSWCDD)

10:45 Failure Mechanism for Metallized Film Capacitors under Pulsed Current - Liwei Li (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

11:00 Development of High Voltage IES Pulse Chargers Using SI-Thyristor and IGBT - Takehiro Yamaguchi (Kumamoto University)

11:15 Performance of a Low Impedance Nanosecond Pulse Generator - Ryusei Shimotsu (Kumamoto )

11:30 Design and Improvement of a Pulse Shaping Inductor for a Pulsed Power Supply - Anıl Civil (Aselsan Inc.)

11:45 Study on Nanosecond Pulse Discharge in Upstream and Downstream Flow - Zhou Desheng (Harbin Institute of Technology)

12:00 Electrical Breakdown Model and Partial Discharge in Ceramic Dielectrics - Susan Heidger (U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory)

12:30 Kilo-Hertz alternating current pulsed discharge in insulated liquid - Xiaoliang Tang (Donghua University)