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This paper describes a megavolt closing spark gap switch designed to switch water energy stores in pulse power generators. A peculiarity of the closing spark gap switch is the multichannel regime of the current flow in all discharge gaps that prolongs the lifetime of the switch, decreases its inductance and resistance, and finally, reduces the losses of the stored energy transfered to a load.
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Institute of High Current Electronics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 12, pp. 91–99, December, 1999.
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Volkov, S.I., Kim, A.A., Kovalchuk, B.M. et al. Multichannel closing switch for water energy stores. Russ Phys J 42, 1065–1072 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02512421
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02512421