{"title":"Particle-In-Cell Simulations of Beam-wave Interacion for Sub-Terahertz Folded Waveguide Traveling Wave Tubes","authors":"Zhengyuan Zhao, Wenxin Liu, Longlong Yang, Yue Ou","doi":"10.1109/IVEC45766.2020.9520497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVEC45766.2020.9520497","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we modelled a sub-Terahertz at the frequency of 0.108THz folded waveguide traveling-tube (FWTWT) by utilizing a 3-D particle-in-cell (PIC) in CST STUDIO SUITE, and we investigated the beam and electromagnetic field of 108GHz FWTWT. The process of the interaction for FWTWT are presented, including working voltage, the structural parameters, working frequency. The radiation power and gain of the FWTWT at 108GHz is 42.32W and 26.26dB. The output of the FWTWT changes only 1.2dB across the 7Ghz bandwidth ranging from 103Ghz to 110GHz, which is useful in many fields, such as communications, electronic countermeasures, radar.","PeriodicalId":170853,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 21st International Conference on Vacuum Electronics (IVEC)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133197541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xueheng Zhang, Jin Xu, S. Fang, Xuebing Jiang, P.C. Yin, Jing-Wen Luo, Yijun Hu, Xiuling Ge, H. Yin, Lingna Yue, G. Zhao, W. Yang, W.X. Wang, Y. Gong, W.X. Liu, D.Z. Li, Y. Wei
{"title":"A New type of 0.34THz Sine Waveguide Slow Wave Structure","authors":"Xueheng Zhang, Jin Xu, S. Fang, Xuebing Jiang, P.C. Yin, Jing-Wen Luo, Yijun Hu, Xiuling Ge, H. Yin, Lingna Yue, G. Zhao, W. Yang, W.X. Wang, Y. Gong, W.X. Liu, D.Z. Li, Y. Wei","doi":"10.1109/IVEC45766.2020.9520517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVEC45766.2020.9520517","url":null,"abstract":"A new type sine waveguide slow wave structure (SWS) is proposed in this paper considering fabrication feasibility. Unlike the conventional sine waveguide SWS, a round beam tunnel is adopted in this modified structure. The simulation results show that the new structure have the advantages of wide bandwidth and low loss which are important in millimeter-wave and THz TWT. A 3dB bandwidth of 25 GHz and a maximum gain of 27 dB were predicted by PIC simulation for a 40 mm-long slow wave circuit.","PeriodicalId":170853,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 21st International Conference on Vacuum Electronics (IVEC)","volume":"834 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133279355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Naofumi Kosugi, Daiki Matsumoto, T. Machida, T. Munehiro, Yoshinori Mori, Travis Stewart
{"title":"NEC Network and Sensor Systems, Ltd. Q/V-band Helix TWT for Future High Throughput Satellite Uplink Applications","authors":"Naofumi Kosugi, Daiki Matsumoto, T. Machida, T. Munehiro, Yoshinori Mori, Travis Stewart","doi":"10.1109/IVEC45766.2020.9520582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVEC45766.2020.9520582","url":null,"abstract":"NEC Network and Sensor Systems, Ltd. has developed a Q/V-band(47.2 - 51.4GHz) 250Wpeak 150Wcw TWT(Traveling-Wave-Tube). This was accomplished with attention to detail in the design of performance and reliability in support of future HTS(High Throughput Satellites) uplink application. This paper presents the summary of this development, which is based on NEC’s vast experience, gained from the Ka-band 500W/550W TWTs, well as the space application TWTs.","PeriodicalId":170853,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 21st International Conference on Vacuum Electronics (IVEC)","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131818846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diamond p-i-n-nanoC Diodes for Electron Emitters","authors":"F. Koeck, M. Benipal, H. Surdi, R. Nemanich","doi":"10.1109/IVEC45766.2020.9520600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVEC45766.2020.9520600","url":null,"abstract":"Electron emitters are widely deployed in traveling wavetubes (TWTs) for communications, radar applications, and scientific apparatus like free electron lasers. These instruments typically utilize cathodes that release an electron current through application of thermal energy or high electric fields. A novel electron emitter approach exploits the negative electron affinity surface of diamond in a modified semiconductor p-i-n diode. Under a forward bias electrons are injected into the conduction band of the diamond diode and a fraction are emitted into vacuum. Electron emission occurs at room temperature and low electric fields. We have prepared a modified diamond p-i-n diode that included a highly conducting nanostructured carbon (nanoC) contact layer utilizing plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) on a single crystal boron doped substrate. Emitter devices with various geometries were then fabricated using photo-lithography. After a hydrogen passivation step individual devices were characterized in vacuum. Under a forward bias the p-i-n-nanoC diodes displayed light emission indicative of bipolar transport. With a typical diode current of 0.1A an electron emission current approaching 0.4mA was measured from a single device sized 1.2mm x 0.2mm.","PeriodicalId":170853,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 21st International Conference on Vacuum Electronics (IVEC)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127678079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Secondary Electron Simulations of a Gyrotron Collector with Magnetic Sweeping and Voltage Depression","authors":"S. Cauffman, M. Blank, P. Borchard, K. Felch","doi":"10.1109/IVEC45766.2020.9520545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVEC45766.2020.9520545","url":null,"abstract":"Megawatt-class gyrotrons are designed to distribute the residual electron beam energy across a large collecting surface, to keep power densities low enough to be dissipated without threatening long-term vacuum integrity. Because the incident beam is very narrow, various techniques are used to lower the instantaneous and time-averaged power densities on the collector surface, while keeping the size of the collector within the limits of current fabrication capabilities. Gyrotron collector design typically focuses on optimizing the power deposition of the incident (“primary”) beam. It is often assumed that the effects of secondary electron emission from the collector surface (whether due to reflection of primaries, or true secondary emission) will tend to further spread the power density profile. Such additional spreading can be beneficial if it lowers peak power densities, but can be detrimental if it deposits power in undesired locations or sends particles back toward the gyrotron’s interaction region. Here, we simulate the effects of secondary/reflected electrons in the VGT-8115, a 110 GHz, 1.2 MW, 10-second gyrotron used for electron cyclotron heating and current drive in the DIII-D tokamak. We examine the ramifications of secondary emission under various operating conditions, such as variations in collector sweeping parameters and collector depression voltage, comparing power densities and particle trajectories with and without secondaries.","PeriodicalId":170853,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 21st International Conference on Vacuum Electronics (IVEC)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115466015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First-Principles Model of Miram Curve from Polycrystalline Tungsten Cathodes","authors":"Dongzheng Chen, R. Jacobs, D. Morgan, J. Booske","doi":"10.1109/IVEC45766.2020.9520431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVEC45766.2020.9520431","url":null,"abstract":"Previously, we constructed a first-principles statistical model to predict the non-uniform emission from polycrystalline tungsten cathodes, which incorporated microstructure characterization results, crystallographic-orientation-specific work function values via density functional theory (DFT), and temperature-limited (TL) emission physics. This previous model could only predict the TL region of the Miram curve and not the transition between TL and full-space-charge-limited (FSCL) regions. In this work, we have expanded our model to predict emission along the entire Miram curve, including the transition from TL to FSCL regions, without any empirical assumptions on work function distribution or empirical emission equations. This more advanced model provides a pathway to understanding the complex physics of emission from heterogeneous cathode surfaces, which is a key issue for the commercial production and use of thermionic cathodes in vacuum electronic devices.","PeriodicalId":170853,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 21st International Conference on Vacuum Electronics (IVEC)","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125463779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Self-Consistent Modeling of Waveguide Circulator Under Realistic Magnetic Field for Industrial Applications","authors":"Kaviya Aranganadin, H. Hsu, Ming-Chieh Lin","doi":"10.1109/IVEC45766.2020.9520639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVEC45766.2020.9520639","url":null,"abstract":"An RF waveguide circulator is a ferromagnetic passive device with three or four ports, which is used to protect other RF components from excessive signal reflection. The previous studies on the design and development of the circulators deal with achieving broad bandwidth and high transmission efficiency using finite element method (FEM) simulations with a homogenous applied bias field. This work takes a step further and presents a novel self-consistent approach to modeling a ferrite waveguide circulator by solving electromagnetic and magnetostatic equations simultaneously. The comparison between the homogenous and the non-homogenous field models shows the importance of coupling a magnetic circuit to an electromagnetic simulation. The more realistic circulator design presented here still has a broad bandwidth of 180 MHz, insertion loss less than 0.24 dB, reflection, and isolation better than 20 dB operated at the center frequency of 2.45 GHz. It can be used to replace an industrial waveguide circulator, which has only a 50 MHz bandwidth. Hence, by increasing the bandwidth of a circulator, one can reduce the number of units for a dual-frequency magnetrons operating concurrently at 2,430 and 2,480 MHz with a working power of 3 kW each employed in the microwave plasma system.","PeriodicalId":170853,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 21st International Conference on Vacuum Electronics (IVEC)","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126243217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High power microwave measurement techniques at CEA-Gramat","authors":"A. Chauloux, J. Diot, N. Tharaud, Jérémy Pothée","doi":"10.1109/IVEC45766.2020.9520472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVEC45766.2020.9520472","url":null,"abstract":"High power microwave (HPM) measurement remains a challenging application since it requires accurate sensors with high power handling. Electromagnetic (EM) fields can reach dramatically high magnitudes such as MV per meter. If no particular attention is paid when designing a sensor for HPM measurements, electrical breakdowns may appear. This leads to irreversible damages and non-accurate results. Through the HPM developments achieved at CEA-Gramat various techniques have raised for the diagnostic of EM fields patterns and microwave power levels delivered by relativistic sources. Three are here introduced: EM field measurement with in-situ calibration; a waveguide integrated coupler to determine output powers of microwave sources; a photothermal film to observe the EM field.","PeriodicalId":170853,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 21st International Conference on Vacuum Electronics (IVEC)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126937523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on the Competition Mode Suppression in Coaxial Extended Interaction Structure","authors":"Zhang Xu, Zhang Rui, Wang Yong","doi":"10.1109/IVEC45766.2020.9520453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVEC45766.2020.9520453","url":null,"abstract":"Extended interaction klystrons operating in high-order mode can establish more sufficient axial electric field than the fundamental mode in a large size cavity. However, this structure suffers greatly from the mode competition because of the combination of axial and transverse modes. This paper presents the mode competition analysis of a coaxial extended cavity operating in ${TM}_{31}$ mode through particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation. Meanwhile, applying dielectric loads in the proper position can effectively suppress the mode competition of this structure, while the ${TM}_{31}$ mode has little interaction with the dielectric loads.","PeriodicalId":170853,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 21st International Conference on Vacuum Electronics (IVEC)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127191823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Glyavin, G. Denisov, A. Fedotov, A. Fokin, I. Zotova, A. Bogdashov
{"title":"Frequency Tuning and Spectrum Control in Sub-THz Gyrotrons","authors":"M. Glyavin, G. Denisov, A. Fedotov, A. Fokin, I. Zotova, A. Bogdashov","doi":"10.1109/IVEC45766.2020.9520549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVEC45766.2020.9520549","url":null,"abstract":"We present the results of recent IAP RAS investigations, which were aimed at controlling the radiation frequency and spectrum of sub-THz medium power gyrotrons. Different methods of extending the smooth frequency tuning band and providing high frequency stability in CW regimes are discussed. The development of gyrotrons with stated parameters are of interest for many modern applications, including DNP/NMR and RAD spectroscopy, direct measurements of positronium hyperfine structure, diagnostic of various media, etc.","PeriodicalId":170853,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE 21st International Conference on Vacuum Electronics (IVEC)","volume":"99 7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123677091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}