UC Davis vacuum and solid state millimeter wave electronics program

Major impetus for the vacuum electron beam and solid state based millimeter wave research and development activities at UC Davis derives from requirements for advanced accelerators, fusion plasma diagnostics, millimeter wave radar, HPM, materials characterization, phased array radar, high data rate communications speech recognition, and collision avoidance radar. This has necessitated fundamental studies of high brightness laser driven photocathode electron beam sources, gyro-amplifiers, monolithic quasi-optical grid arrays loaded with III-V based devices, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) based arrays, and ultrashort pulse microimpulse radars. In this paper, a few of these studies are briefly discussed.