Title :
UC Davis vacuum and solid state millimeter wave electronics program
Author :
Luhmann, N.C., Jr.
Author_Institution :
California Univ., Davis, CA, USA
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;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology Proceedings, 1998. ICMMT '98. 1998 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4308-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICMMT.1998.768221
