Grants and Contributions:

Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2018-2019).

A unique high-current short-pulse generator has been developed through the years at Polytechnique Montreal.x000D
An innovative design of the core technology has been developed to reach performance unmatched inx000D
comparison with available commercial current generators. The design is modular in the sense that the mainx000D
module can be combined with different types of slave modules to optimize the current generator characteristicsx000D
for a desired application. In all cases, the shape of the current pulse (square, sinusoidal, etc.) can be arbitraryx000D
defined by the user. The main strength of the design comes from the high precision in the shape of thex000D
generated current pulse. In its simplest form, the generator can create an almost perfectly square impulse,x000D
which is very challenging in the microsecond regime and at very high currents (more than 100 A)x000D
simultaneously. Furthermore, the noise generated is very low.x000D
Considering that high-current short-pulse generators are used in a number of industries, the core technologyx000D
developed at Polytechnique can be easily adapted to produce current generators for numerous applications at ax000D
competitive price. The goal of the current market assessment is thus to evaluate which applications representx000D
the most promising opportunity for the technology, both in terms of the size of the addressable market, but alsox000D
of the significance of the competitive advantage that the technology could provide.