Pre-ionization Gas Switch

Jitter Reduced to 1/4

A novel pre-ionization structure with disks is implemented into the trigger gap, considerably decreasing breakdown time delay and reducing jitter to a quarter or even less compared to that without pre-ionization.

Zhenming, Wen · Wang, Zhiguo · Fan, Siyuan · Jiang, Xiaofeng · Jiang, Hongyu · Qiu, Aici

Review of Scientific Instruments 2023

Advantages

Trigger gap has significantly more jitter than self-breakdown gap

Pre-ionization structure considerably decreases breakdown delay of trigger gap

Jitter reduced to a quarter or even less compared to without pre-ionization