title: Fast high-voltage high-current switch: thyratron-spark gap hybrid.
abstract: A high-voltage high-current switch using a hydrogen thyratron in series with a two-element spark gap is described. The hybrid switch triggers like a thyratron, turns off like a spark gap, and holds off twice the potential of either element alone.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Gibson