A novel design of Rogowski coil for measurement of nanosecond-risetime high-level pulsed current

Rev Sci Instrum. 2015 Mar;86(3):035114. doi: 10.1063/1.4916094.

Abstract

In pulsed power systems, pulsed currents with risetimes from nanosecond to microsecond can be effectively measured by self-integrating Rogowski coils. Appropriate design of the structure and the integrating resistor is crucial to the high-frequency response of a coil. In this paper, several novel designs of Rogowski coil's integrating resistors were proposed and tested. Experimental results showed that the optimized coil could response square waves with fronts of ∼1.5 ns and had a sensitivity of ∼0.75 V/kA. The maximal peak current was designed as 100 kA.