The final push to the final voltage is thanks to a three-stage Cockcroft-Walton multiplier made with satisfyingly chunky capacitors and diodes. To ensure everything stays safe in the high-voltage ...
Shan writes - This apparatus is named after Cockcroft and Walton, who in 1932 used a similar ladder-arrangement network to power their particle accelerator. A Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier ...