Design of a simple and low-cost solid-state ultra-fast high-voltage switch.
Rev Sci Instrum
; 94(6)2023 Jun 01.
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ABSTRACT
Ultra-fast high-voltage switches (UFHVSs) are a core component of time-of-flight mass spectrometers for realizing high accuracy ion acceleration, deceleration, and temporal focusing. The desirable features of high performance UFHVSs include a large range of adjustability of pulse width, a high maximum output amplitude, and minute rising and falling times. Besides the simplicity of the driver circuit, the total cost of the whole device is also critical to its practical applications. In this work, we present a low-cost and easy-fabrication 5000 V bipolar solid-state UFHVS for a high-resolution mass spectrometer. A double-pulse transformer isolates the circuit's high- and low-voltage sides and synchronously drives series-connected cascode SiC FETs to form its push-pull topology. This scheme allows transmitting drive signals with long widths but without the magnetic saturation of the transformer. Testing results show that output pulses reach a maximum voltage of 5000 V and a width of 150 µs, with rising and falling times of 8.5 and 18.3 ns, respectively. More importantly, they have nearly no voltage decay.
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Rev Sci Instrum
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2023
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China