A comprehensive study of microwave vacuum electronic devices andtheir current and future applications
While both vacuum and solid–state electronics continue to evolveand provide unique solutions, emerging commercial and militaryapplications that call for higher power and higher frequencies toaccommodate massive volumes of transmitted data are the naturaldomain of vacuum electronics technology. Modern Microwave andMillimeter–Wave Power Electronics provides systems designers,engineers, and researchers–especially those with primarilysolid–state training–with a thoroughly up–to–date survey of therich field of microwave vacuum electronic device (MVED)technology.
This book familiarizes the R&D and academic communities withthe capabilities and limitations of MVED and highlights theexciting scientific breakthroughs of the past decade that aredramatically increasing the compactness, efficiency,cost–effectiveness, and reliability of this entire class ofdevices.
This comprehensive text explores a wide range of topics:
- Traveling–wave tubes, which form the backbone of satellite andairborne communications, as well as of military electroniccountermeasures systems
- Microfabricated MVEDs and advanced electron beam sources
- Klystrons, gyro–amplifiers, and crossed–field devices
- "Virtual prototyping" of MVEDs via advanced 3–D computationalmodels
- High–Power Microwave (HPM) sources
- Next–generation microwave structures and circuits
- How to achieve linear amplification
- Advanced materials technologies for MVEDs
- A Web site appendix providing a step–by–step walk–through of atypical MVED design process
Concluding with an in–depth examination of emerging applicationsand future possibilities for MVEDs,
Modern Microwave andMillimeter–Wave Power Electronics ensures that systemsdesigners and engineers understand and utilize the significantpotential of this mature, yet continually developing technology.
SPECIAL NOTE: All of the editors′ royalties realized from thesale of this book will fund the future research and publicationactivities of graduate students in the vacuum electronicsfield.
ROBERT J. BARKER, PhD, is the program manager for ElectroEnergetic Physics at the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. A Fellow of both the IEEE and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, he is coeditor of High-Power Microwave Sources and Technologies (Wiley-IEEE Press).
JOHN H. BOOSKE, PhD, is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has published over ninety peer-reviewed journal articles and has received the University of Wisconsin's prestigious Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award and the Vilas Associates Award for research excellence.
NEVILLE C. LUHMANN Jr., PhD, is a professor in the departments of Applied Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California at Davis. He won the 1994 Robert L. Woods/DoD Award for Excellence in Vacuum Electronics.
GREGORY S. NUSINOVICH, PhD, is a Fellow of the IEEE and a senior research scientist with the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics at the University of Maryland at College Park.
