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Cockcroft-Walton multiplier: a standalone construct

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Power electronics

a ladder of diodes and capacitors that turns an AC input into a DC voltage many times its peak.

In power electronics, Cockcroft-Walton multiplier refers to a ladder of diodes and capacitors that turns an AC input into a DC voltage many times its peak. This meaning comes from Cockcroft (1932) in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character.[1]

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Cockcroft, J. D., & Walton, E. T. S. (1932). Experiments with high velocity positive ions.―(I) Further developments in the method of obtaining high velocity positive ions. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character, 136(830), 619-630. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1932.0107

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