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Conference Agenda

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Daily Overview

Session

High Voltage 1 - High Voltage Devices, Diagnostics, and Systems

Time:

Monday, 13/July/2026:

10:00am - 12:00pm

Session Chair: Randy Cooper, Cooper Consulting Services, Inc.

Location: Augustus 5

Presentations

10:00am - 10:20am
HV Devices 1: 1

Software-Defined Diagnostic Interface for Performance Monitoring of High-Reliability Pulsed Power Systems

V. Popa-Simil, D. Smith, L. Romero

Los Alamos National Laboratory - Intelligence and Space Research Division, United States of America

10:20am - 10:40am
HV Devices 1: 2

Design and Characterization of a High-Voltage Pulse Generator Using LC Pumping and a Modular Drift Step Recovery Diode Stack

J. Kuehler¹, T. Wright¹, W. Hendricks¹, N. Black¹, S. Heidger², B. Hoff², J. Schrock², J. Dickens¹, A. Neuber¹, J. Mankowski¹, J. Stephens¹

¹Texas Tech Pulsed Power and Power Electronics Lab, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America; ²Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, United States of America

10:40am - 11:00am
HV Devices 1: 3

Dielectrophorosis of Nanomaterials using High voltage High Frequency Transformer

P. Pradeep Nair, K. Nellutla

Theion-GmbH, Germany

11:00am - 11:20am
HV Devices 1: 4

Exploring Surrogacy Between the Z Pulsed Power Facility's Inner-MITL and its Electrical Diagnostics Calibration Fixture

S. Hernandez, J. Smith, B. Hutsel, K. Chandler, M. Gomez, J. Leckbee

Sandia National Laboratories, United States of America

11:20am - 11:40am
HV Devices 1: 5

Fielding of a Pulsed Power System for High Energy, Laser Triggered Gas Switch Testing

K. Allen¹, N. Helm¹, B. Schmidt¹, J. Stephens¹, A. Neuber¹, J. Dickens¹, J. Mankowski¹, J. Smith², M. Flynn², B. Stoltzfus², A. Steiner², J. Leckbee²

¹Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA; ²Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA

11:40am - 12:00pm
HV Devices 1: 6

Design and Optimization of a low power, high voltage, flyback Transformer for Capacitor Charging in pulsed plasma thruster Applications

D. OReilly, D. F. Kavanagh

Southeast Technological University of Ireland