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HVDC circuit breakers are of increasing importance, as multi-terminal high voltage DC (HVDC) transmission becomes a commercial reality. Multiple HVDC breaker technologies have been developed, and are ...

There are several hundreds of spots operating simultaneously on cathodes of vacuum arcs in high-power vacuum circuit breakers. In this work, the spot distribution along the contact surface is ...