title: High performance thyratron driver with low jitter.
abstract: We report the design and development of insulated gate bipolar junction transistor based high performance driver for operating thyratrons in grounded grid mode. With careful design, the driver meets the specification of trigger output pulse rise time less than 30 ns, jitter less than +/-1 ns, and time delay less than 160 ns. It produces a -600 V pulse of 500 ns duration (full width at half maximum) at repetition rate ranging from 1 Hz to 1.14 kHz. The developed module also facilitates heating and biasing units along with protection circuitry in one complete package.
authors.affiliation: Natural Sciences and Science Education, NIE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
authors.forename: Rishi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Verma
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: S V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Springham
authors.forename: T L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Rawat
mesh_terms: D000669:Amplifiers, Electronic; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004581:Electronics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*