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Record-breaking, ultrafast device to protect the grid

Luke Yates, left, a Sandia National Laboratories electrical engineer, passes Jack Flicker, a grid resiliency expert, a gallium nitride wafer with an array of diodes that can shunt a record-breaking 6,400 volts of electricity within a few billionths of a second – a significant step towards protecting the nation’s electric grid from an electromagnetic pulse.

 

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Uploaded on March 25, 2022
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