An Investigation into the Ablation and Deposition Phenomena of Carbon Film based Triggered Vacuum Gaps

各种民用、工业和军事应用都需要大的电力脉冲；这些应用包括激光、聚变发电机、雷达系统、闪电模拟器、脉冲焊接机和X光机以及许多其他应用。提供所需的电脉冲是一个挑战，因为普通发电方法不能提供如此快速的尖峰脉冲(特别是在与电网隔离的系统中)。在实践中，最常见的产生脉冲的方法是在很长一段时间内储存电能，然后在很短的时间内释放所有储存的能量。所使用的储电器通常是专用陶瓷电容器，因为大多数其他类型的电容器和电池都会被大而快速的瞬变电压和电流损坏。

Large impulses of electrical power are required by various civil, industrial, and military applications; these include lasers, fusion power generators, radar systems, lightning simulators, pulse welders, and x-ray machines as well as many others. Providing thedesired electric pulses is a challenge as the common power generation methods cannot supply such rapidly spiking impulses (especially in systems isolated away from the electrical grid). In practice, the most common method for generating the pulses is to store electrical energy over a long period of time, and then release all of the stored energy in a very short period of time. The electrical storage used is usually specialist ceramic capacitors as most other types of capacitors and batteries will be damaged bylarge and rapidly transient voltages and currents.