Collaboration Opportunities

We are also offering our experimental infrastructure as hub for international research collaborations also beyond our current research projects. Feel free to contact us with ideas for joint projects making use of our expertise and our experimental facilities.

• The pulsed Townsend experiment (see High Voltage Gaseous Insulation project) enables us to measure electron and ion swarm parameters in arbitrary gases, such as the reaction rates of ionization, attachment, detachment and conversion, the electron and ion mobilities, and the longitudinal electron diffusion coefficient. These parameters enable simulations of electrical discharges/low-temperature plasmas.
• The Flexible Pulsed Direct Current Source (see Switching in HVDC systems) enables us to stress components with arbitrary current shapes up to 24 kA and slopes of 80 kA/ms for up to 100 ms and driving voltages up to 10 kV. We have used this source for detailed (switching arc) characterization and investigation of the safe operating area of power electronic components.