Pseudospark-sourced beam and its application in high-power millimeter-wave generation

L Zhang, H Yin, W He, X Chen, J Zhang, A Cross - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
A pseudospark (PS) discharge can generate an electron beam with a high current density.
The electron beam can be self-focused by an ion channel and transported over a long …

Simulation investigations on discharge process of a pseudospark switch in series with a magnetic switch

G Sun, X Wang, W Ding, J Yan, S Shen - Physics of Plasmas, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The conduction loss of the pseudospark switch (PSS) can be reduced by connecting the
magnetic switch (MS) and PSS in series to form the magnetically delayed pseudospark …

Role of electrode geometry on the operational characteristics of multiaperture pseudospark switch

S Misra, A Mishra, RP Lamba, BL Meena… - … on Electron Devices, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the present study comparative analysis for various geometrical parameters has been
presented for the operational characteristics in a single gap multiaperture pseudospark …

Analysis of Dynamic Impedance for Different Phases of Pseudospark-Driven Electron Beam

A Abhishek, N Kumar, S Prabhu… - … on Electron Devices, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, the dynamic impedance of a pseudospark (PS)-driven electron beam has
been analyzed for different phases of breakdown over a range of applied gap voltage (AGV) …

Simulations of the self-focused pseudospark-sourced electron beam in a background ion channel

L Zhang, ADR Phelps, K Ronald, AW Cross - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Using pseudospark discharge sourced electron beams for the generation of high-peak-
power millimeter and terahertz radiation has attracted increasing research interest in recent …

Computational Modelling of the Plasma in the Charge Exchange Thruster

D Schijndel - 2024 - ses.library.usyd.edu.au
The Charge Exchange Thruster (CXT) is a novel plasma thruster that produces thrust via
energetic neutrals leaving the device. This is done by accelerating ions with an electrostatic …

Simulation of pseudospark discharge and the transportation of the generated electron beam

L Zhang, ADR Phelps, AW Cross… - 2022 15th UK-Europe …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the simulation of the Pseudospark (PS) discharge process and the
transportation of the generated electron beam in the ion channel using the particle-in-cell …

Simulations of pseudospark discharge and its generated beam to drive a THz EIO

L Zhang, ADR Phelps, K Ronald… - 2021 14th UK …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pseudospark (PS) sourced beams have unique features of high-current density and self-
focusing by the ion channel. This paper presents the characteristics of the PS-sourced beam …

Characteristics of pseudospark-sourced beam and its application in THZ sources

L Zhang, K Ronald, ADR Phelps… - … on Plasma Science …, 2021 - pureportal.strath.ac.uk
Pseudospark (PS) discharge is a low-pressure gas discharge characterized by a rapid
breakdown phase with the generation of a high current density electron beam, which is over …