Innovative use of Metamaterials in Confining, Controlling, and Radiating Intense Microwave Pulses

Abstract

This final technical report describes our research over the past 5.5 years under the FY12 MURI award to investigate how metamaterials (MTMs) can be exploited as new means of high power microwave generation. We have concluded that MTMs have greatly expanded the parameter space for dispersion engineering for beam/wave interaction. We have demonstrated two operational high power MTM sources, one generating 5 MW at S-band and the other generating 100 MWin L-band. Considerable progress has been made in the theoretical understanding of these devices as well. This final report summarizes the discoveries made during this program and is written in a manner to provide a synopsis of the forthcoming Advances in High Power Microwave Sources and Technologies using Metamaterials (IEEE Press/Wiley, 2019).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 28, 2018
Accession Number
AD1057170

Entities

People

  • Alex Figotin
  • Edl Schamiloglu
  • Filippo Capolino
  • John L. Volakis
  • Michael A Shapiro
  • Richard J Temkin
  • Robert Lipton

Organizations

  • University of New Mexico

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Backward Wave Oscillators
  • Dielectric Permittivity
  • Dielectric Properties
  • Dielectrics
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Energy Transfer
  • Group Velocity
  • High Power Microwaves
  • Materials Science
  • Negative Index Metamaterials
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Terahertz Radiation
  • Transmission Lines
  • Traveling Wave Tubes
  • Wave Propagation

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Nanofabrication and Microfabrication.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics
  • Space