Modern Pulsed Power: Charlie Martin and Beyond

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Authors
Shamiloglu, Edl
Barker, Robert J.
Gundersen, Martin
Neuber, Andreas A.
Subjects
Bioelectrics
explosive pulsed power
high-power microwave
intense beams
plasma pinches
pulsed power
radiography
ultrawideband microwaves
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Date of Issue
2004-07
Date
8/1/01 – 7/31/04
Publisher
IEEE
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Abstract
Modern pulsed power has its genesis in the pioneering work of the late John Christopher Martin and his colleagues at the Atomic Weapons Establishment, Aldermaston, U.K., in the 1960s [1]. “Charlie,” as he was known to the community, was a hydrodynamicist who was frustrated by his inability to purchase an adequate X-ray radiography source to image the dynamic phenomena he was interested in. As a result, he pursued a new generation of radiography sources that were based on high-power Marx generators, coupled with low-impedance transmission lines, and cold cathode single-stage accelerating gaps. Thus was the birth of modern pulsed power.
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International Symposium on New Paradigm VLSI Computing, Sendai, Japan, Dec. 12-14, 2002, pp.31-36.
This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. As such, it is in the public domain, and under the provisions of Title 17, United States Code, Section 105, may not be copyrighted.
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Physics
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Sponsors
U. S. Army Research Office
Sponsor/Monitor's Report Number(s):42713.8-PH
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DAAD19-01-1-0698
Format
8 p.
Citation
Schamiloglu, Edl, et al. "Modern pulsed power: Charlie Martin and beyond." Proceedings of the IEEE 92.7 (2004): 1014-1020.
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