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Design Of An O-Type Metamaterial Slow Wave Structure For High Power Microwave Generation, Sabahattin C. Yurt

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

The aim of this dissertation is to design a novel metamaterial slow wave structure (MSWS) for high power microwave (HPM) generation which is an efficient and compact new generation O-type device whose output parameters are comparable to, and even better than conventional devices. There is increasing interest in using metamaterials for designing HPM sources because of their so-called unique electromagnetic properties that are not found in nature, such as below cutoff propagation, which is the main property that allows for a compact design, and negative refractive index that allows backward wave propagation and reversed Cerenkov radiation. As such new beam/wave …