Jibran Latif;Zhanliang Wang;Yubin Gong;Atif Jameel;Muhammad Khawar Nadeem;Bilawal Ali
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Abstract
A novel quadruple corrugated waveguide slow-wave structure for terahertz radiation sources has been proposed, designed for pencil and sheet electron beams. It is compared in detail with a double corrugated waveguide slow-wave structure in terms of dispersion, interaction impedance, and output power. High-frequency characteristics show an interaction impedance of
$0.77~\Omega $
for quadruple corrugated waveguide sheet electron beam tunnel,
$0.55~\Omega $
for quadruple corrugated waveguide pencil electron beam tunnel, and
$0.5~\Omega $
for double corrugated waveguide at 0.34 THz. To validate the proposed slow-wave structure, a 0.34 THz backward wave oscillator is designed, with a sheet electron beam producing 6.3 W peak power and frequency tunability from 0.281-0.368 THz, and a pencil beam generating 2.6 W peak power with frequency tunability from 0.286-0.365 THz. The double corrugated waveguide-based BWO shows an output power of 2.2 W. 160 periods of the quadruple corrugated waveguide slow-wave structure are fabricated using a computer numerical control milling machine. Cold test experiments show
${S}_{{21}}$
above -2 dB and
${S}_{{11}}$
below -16 dB at 0.34 THz.
期刊介绍:
IEEE Electron Device Letters publishes original and significant contributions relating to the theory, modeling, design, performance and reliability of electron and ion integrated circuit devices and interconnects, involving insulators, metals, organic materials, micro-plasmas, semiconductors, quantum-effect structures, vacuum devices, and emerging materials with applications in bioelectronics, biomedical electronics, computation, communications, displays, microelectromechanics, imaging, micro-actuators, nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, photovoltaics, power ICs and micro-sensors.