Degraded Switching Characteristics of a High-Current, High-Action Reversely Switched Dynistor

High-voltage, high-current, and high-coulomb transfer closing switches are required for many high-pulsed power systems. This letter presents the degraded switching characteristics of a high-power reversely switched dynistor (RSD). The degraded switching characteristics of the RSD were tested with a working voltage of 10 kV, the repetition rate of 0.2 Hz, and a peak current of about 107 kA. The action is about 1.45 MA2·s. The transferred charge and energy per shot are about 20 C and 100 kJ, respectively. Only minimal changes in the leakage current and voltage drop were witnessed after a serial test of 50 000 shots. The degraded switching characteristics of the RSD were investigated based on two different methods with the special parameters of static volt-ampere characteristics and dynamic voltage drop on RSD, respectively. The degraded switching model of RSD under high-current conditions for long-pulse application was established using the method of numerical fitting. The results show that these two methods agree well with each other.