Microwave corona breakdown prediction in arbitrarily-shaped waveguide based filters
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Title: | Microwave corona breakdown prediction in arbitrarily-shaped waveguide based filters |
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Authors: | Pinheiro Ortega, Teresa | Monge Alonso, Javier | Marini, Stephan | Sanz López, Javier | Sorolla Rosario, Eden | Mattes, Michael | Vicente Quiles, Carlos | Gil Raga, Jordi | Boria Esbert, Vicente Enrique | Gimeno Martínez, Benito |
Research Group/s: | Holografía y Procesado Óptico |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal |
Keywords: | Electromagnetic simulation | Gas discharge | High power | Microwave breakdown threshold | Microwave filters |
Knowledge Area: | Teoría de la Señal y Comunicaciones | Electromagnetismo |
Issue Date: | 1-Apr-2010 |
Publisher: | IEEE |
Citation: | PINHEIRO ORTEGA, Teresa, et al. "Microwave corona breakdown prediction in arbitrarily-shaped waveguide based filters". IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters. Vol. 20, No. 4 (Apr. 2010). ISSN 1531-1309, pp. 214-216 |
Abstract: | This letter describes an efficient algorithm to predict the RF gas breakdown power threshold in microwave devices with complex geometries. The two necessary calculations when investigating such a phenomenon have been performed: on the one hand, the computation of the electromagnetic fields inside the structure and, on the other hand, the determination of the breakdown onset itself. The electromagnetic fields are solved by means of modal techniques and coupled to the free electron continuity equation, which is solved by the Finite Element Method. Proceeding in this way, a very simple criterion to find out whether microwave corona breakdown will take place is derived. This numerical implementation of the developed algorithms has been tested with other theoretical approaches and with experimental measurements, showing very good agreement. |
Sponsor: | This work was supported by the Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia of Spain under Grant TEC2007-67630-C03-01/TCM and the “Programa Torres Quevedo” (PTQ08-03-08254). |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/13874 |
ISSN: | 1531-1309 |
DOI: | 10.1109/LMWC.2010.2042555 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LMWC.2010.2042555 |
Appears in Collections: | INV - GHPO - Artículos de Revistas INV - GMECA - Artículos de Revistas |
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