Demonstration of a Planar -Band, kW-Level Extended Interaction Oscillator Based on a Pseudospark-Sourced Sheet Electron Beam

GX Shu, H Yin, L Zhang, JP Zhao, G Liu… - IEEE Electron …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A W-band extended interaction oscillator (EIO) driven by a pseudospark-sourced sheet
electron beam (PS-SEB) is demonstrated in this letter. The idea of combining the …

A tapered multi-gap multi-aperture pseudospark-sourced electron gun based X-band slow wave oscillator

N Kumar, RP Lamba, AM Hossain, UN Pal… - Applied Physics …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
The experimental study of a tapered, multi-gap, multi-aperture pseudospark-sourced
electron gun based X-band plasma assisted slow wave oscillator is presented. The …

Pseudospark-driven high-current miniaturized voltage-tunable sheet-electron-beam source

N Kumar, A Abhishek, K Singhal… - … on Electron Devices, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For high-power and compact sub-terahertz (THz) sources, a high-current electron beam is a
crucial component. In this article, a miniaturized sheet-electron-beam source has been …

Experimental demonstration of a terahertz extended interaction oscillator driven by a pseudospark-sourced sheet electron beam

GX Shu, L Zhang, H Yin, JP Zhao, ADR Phelps… - Applied Physics …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We have recently proposed to combine the advantages of a pseudospark-sourced sheet
electron beam (PS-SEB) with a planar slow wave structure to generate high power terahertz …

A technique for planar integration of components of W-band backward-wave oscillator to eliminate misalignment

N Kumar, O Ranjan, A Abhishek… - IEEE Electron …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The alignment within the required tolerance between components like electron beam
source, beam-wave interaction structure and spent beam collector is a major challenge in …

PIC simulation of pseudospark discharge-based plasma cathode electron source for the generation of high current density and energetic electron beam

AW Cross, K Ronald, UN Pal - IEEE Transactions on Electron …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A plasma cathode electron (PCE) source using single-gap to multigap pseudospark
discharge (PD) for the generation of high density and energetic electron beams has been …

A sealed-off double-gap pseudospark switch and its performance analysis

RP Lamba, UN Pal, BL Meena… - Plasma Sources Science …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reports the development of a sealed-off double-gap pseudospark switch and its
performance analysis. The modular pseudospark geometry has two gaps that are separated …

Simulation investigations on stepwise penetration of virtual anode in pseudospark discharge

G Sun, X Wang, J Yan, S Shen, T Shang, W Ding - Physics of Plasmas, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Pseudospark discharge is a special low pressure discharge and has been widely used in
the gas switch and electron beam sources. From experiments, when the work pressure is …

Implementation of trigger unit for generation of high-current-density electron beam

A Abhishek, N Kumar, UN Pal, B Singh… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a trigger unit has been implemented to generate a high-current-density
electron beam from a pseudospark (PS) discharge-based electron gun. A trigger pulse …

Investigations on high-current-density sheet-beam driven V-band slow wave oscillator with a hollow cathode

RA Torgashov, VN Titov, N Kumar… - … on Plasma Science, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, the design approach for a-band miniaturized oscillator with a pseudospark-
based high-current-density sheet electron beam source is presented. The hollow cathode …