Contributing Factors to Window Flashover Under Pulsed High Power Microwave Excitation at High Altitude
Edmistonf, G.
Neuber, A.
Krile, J.
McQuage, L.
Krompholz, H.
Dickens, J.
Depts. of Electr. & Comput. Eng. & Phys., Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX
This paper appears in: Power Modulator Symposium, 2006. Conference Record of the 2006 Twenty-Seventh International Publication Date: 14-18 May 2006
On page(s):
389
- 392
Location: Arlington, VA
ISSN: 1930-885X
ISBN: 1-4244-0018-X
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/MODSYM.2006.365266
Current Version Published: 2007-05-29
Abstract
One of the major limiting factors for the transmission of high power microwave (HPM) radiation is the interface between dielectric-vacuum, or even more severely, between dielectric-air if HPM is to be radiated into the atmosphere. Surface flashover phenomena which occur at these transitions severely limit the power levels which can be transmitted. It is of major technical importance to predict surface flashover events for a given window geometry, material and power level. When considering an aircraft based high power microwave platform, the effects on flashover formation due to variances in the operational environment corresponding to altitudes from sea level to 50,000 feet (760 Torr to 90 Torr) are of primary interest. The test setup is carefully designed to study the influence of each atmospheric variable without the influence of high field enhancement or electron injecting metallic electrodes.
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