Reconfigurable Plasma Metamaterial for High-Power Microwaves (HPM)

Abstract

This research includes:(1) a plane wave method simulation demonstrating viability of a photonic crystal formed from a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) filaments withbandgaps between 5GHz and 300GHz(2) finding that the presence and intensity of a single filament within an array of filaments is controllable by biasing a low voltage needle electrodewith less than 7% of the driving voltage(3) a 3D electrodynamic field simulation showing that increasing bias voltage causes changes in the transverse electric field structure, resulting inredistribution and build-up of surface charge at the needle(4) establishment of a method for predicting filament pattern formation and reducing the necessary bias voltage

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 30, 2019
Accession Number
AD1080791

Entities

People

  • Joshua L. Rovey
  • Matthew C. Paliwoda

Organizations

  • Missouri University of Science and Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Dielectric Permittivity
  • Dielectrics
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Electric Fields
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Electrostatic Fields
  • High Power Microwaves
  • Materials
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Metamaterials
  • Negative Index Metamaterials
  • Photonic Crystals
  • Plane Waves
  • Simulations
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Nanofabrication and Microfabrication.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Pulsed-Laser Deposition
  • Microelectronics