UC Davis vacuum and solid state millimeter wave electronics program

Author

Luhmann, N.C., Jr.

Author_Institution

California Univ., Davis, CA, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

44

Lastpage

47

Abstract

Major impetus for the vacuum electron beam and solid state based millimeter wave research and development activities at UC Davis derives from requirements for advanced accelerators, fusion plasma diagnostics, millimeter wave radar, HPM, materials characterization, phased array radar, high data rate communications speech recognition, and collision avoidance radar. This has necessitated fundamental studies of high brightness laser driven photocathode electron beam sources, gyro-amplifiers, monolithic quasi-optical grid arrays loaded with III-V based devices, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) based arrays, and ultrashort pulse microimpulse radars. In this paper, a few of these studies are briefly discussed

Keywords

Schottky diodes; antenna phased arrays; arrays; electron sources; gyrotrons; micromechanical devices; millimetre wave devices; millimetre wave mixers; photocathodes; radar equipment; research initiatives; travelling wave tubes; varactors; III-V based devices; MEMS based arrays; UC Davis program; electron beam sources; gyro-TWT; gyro-amplifiers; high brightness sources; laser driven photocathode type sources; microelectromechanical systems; monolithic quasi-optical grid arrays; research/development activities; solid state MM-wave electronics program; solid state millimeter wave electronics; ultrashort pulse microimpulse radars; vacuum electron beam research; Colliding beam accelerators; Electron accelerators; Electron beams; III-V semiconductor materials; Laser radar; Millimeter wave radar; Optical arrays; Phased arrays; Research and development; Solid state circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology Proceedings, 1998. ICMMT '98. 1998 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4308-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMMT.1998.768221

Filename

768221