The Design And Construction Of A High Voltage Impulse Generator PDF Download

"This thesis is concerned with the design and construction of a high voltage generator capable of producing steady Potentials of approximately 100,000 volts. The generator is designed to be used principally for acceleration of ions or protons for use in nuclear reactions. Voltages of this nature may be used quite efficiently for producing low energy neutrons in a deuteron-deuterium reaction. Other reactions which are of interest in this range are the proton-lithium, protonboron and proton-fluorine reactions. (10). In addition to the above uses, the generator may be used in any apparatus which requires high DC potentials but does not draw more than a few hundred microamperes. The apparatus is of a semi-portable nature capable of being transported from one room to another like a laboratory tool. This portability is a radical departure from previous apparatus of this type. The circuit used is a form of the Cockcroft- Walton (6) or Greinacher (7) voltage multiplier." --