Cockcroft–Walton (CW) generator
The Cockcroft–Walton (CW) generator , or multiplier , is an electric circuit that generates a high DC voltage from a low-voltage AC or pulsing DC input. It was named after the British and Irish physicists John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton , who in 1932 used this circuit design to power their particle accelerator , performing the first artificial nuclear disintegration in history. I n 1951 they won the Nobel Prize in Physics for "Transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles". The circuit is advanced cascaded form of circuit given by Heinrich Greinacher , a Swiss physicist . For this reason, this doubler cascade is sometimes also referred to as the Greinacher multiplier . Cockcroft–Walton circuits are still used in particle accelerators. They also are used in everyday electronic devices that requ...