A Review of Non-Thermal Plasma Technology: A novel solution for CO2 conversion and utilization

A George, B Shen, M Craven, Y Wang, D Kang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Increasing attention has been drawn to carbon dioxide (CO 2) conversion into higher-value
platform chemicals and synthetic fuels due to global warming. These reactions require a …

Progress in vircators towards high efficiency: Present state and future prospects

S Mumtaz, HS Uhm, EH Choi - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
Background: High-power microwave (HPM) sources remain of interest to research due to
their diverse range of applications The motivation of this research field is to increase the …

Output-power enhancement of vircator based on second virtual cathode formed by wall charge on a dielectric reflector

S Mumtaz, H Uhm, JS Lim… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A second virtual cathode (VC 2) is experimentally developed for the first time in this vircator
study, where an axial vircator is simulated by installing a dielectric reflector (DR), whose …

High power microwave generation by a coaxial virtual cathode oscillator

W Jiang, K Woolverton, J Dickens… - IEEE transactions on …, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new type of virtual cathode oscillator, the coaxial vircator, was studied analytically and
experimentally. A one-dimensional analytical model was used to describe the steady-state …

Enhancing the power of high power microwaves by using zone plate and investigations for the position of virtual cathode inside the drift tube

S Mumtaz, JS Lim, B Ghimire, SW Lee, JJ Choi… - Physics of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Having the device simplicity and high output-power capacity, the capability of the virtual
cathode oscillator (vircator) for emitting high power microwaves is demonstrated. We have …

Theory of the virtual cathode oscillator

W Jiang, M Kristiansen - Physics of Plasmas, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
A one-dimensional analytical theory is developed to describe the behavior of the virtual
cathode oscillator. Theoretical predictions for the microwave frequency and efficiency have …

The characteristics of the second and third virtual cathodes in an axial vircator for the generation of high-power microwaves

S Mumtaz, EH Choi - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
A virtual cathode oscillator or vircator is a vacuum tube for producing high-power
microwaves (HPM). The efficiency of the vircator has been a difficult task for decades. The …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancement in the power of microwaves by the interference with a cone-shaped reflector in an axial vircator

S Mumtaz, P Lamichhane, JS Lim, SH Yoon, JH Jang… - Results in Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
A virtual cathode oscillator (vircator) is a special type of oscillator capable of generating high-
power microwaves. We studied an axially extracted vircator by installing a cone-shaped …

Microwave radiation power of relativistic electron beam with virtual cathode in the external magnetic field

SA Kurkin, AE Hramov, AA Koronovskii - Applied physics letters, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The study of the output power of the electromagnetic radiation of the relativistic electron
beam (REB) with virtual cathode in the presence of external magnetic field has been found …

[HTML][HTML] A novel approach to form second virtual cathode by installing a floating zone plate inside the drift tube

S Mumtaz, LN Nguyen, H Uhm, P Lamichhane… - Results in Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, a new mechanism is proposed to develop a second virtual cathode (VC2). An
axial vircator was simulated by adding a floating zone plate (ZP) inside the drift tube, which …