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Defense Intelligence Reference Document Pulsed High-Power Microwave Source Technology
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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document from the Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 28 January 2010, surveys pulsed high-power microwave (HPM) source technology. It was produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) program. It covers insulation, cathode materials, high-voltage switching, pulse generators, microwave sources such as magnetrons, gyrotrons and the Phoenix and Jolt sources, and antennas. The document concludes that progress depends on advances in cathodes, switching and insulation. It says compact ultrawideband antennas will remain difficult to build.
“Works”9 pages
- p. 9 …to the design and fabrication of a working HPM
source. First, because the pulsed-power section…
- p. 10 …For the past 20 years, engineers have worked with essentially the same plastic
materials, although some…
- p. 12 …Scientists have for years
worked to extend the usefulness of transformer oils, fuorinert, and castor oil…
- p. 15 …This technique works because the conductor is the
source of electrons, without which breakdown will not…
- p. 16 …A review of pure metals
reveals a direct correlation between the work function (r.,.,) and melting…
- p. 17 …This
material works by means of the dielectric-metal surface flashover mechanism
mentioned earlier.
Five steps…
- p. 18 …Cesium is a pure metal that has a work function of only 1.9 eV and…
- p. 24 …EXPLOSIVELY DRIVEN GENERATORS
Explosively driven generators, also called flux compression generators (FCGs), work by
setting up…
- p. 25 …These sources work by converting the kinetic
energy of an electron beam into EM energy.
BWOs…
28 January 2010
ICOD: 1 December 2009
DIA-08-0912-005
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