Microwave Vacuum Electronic Devices: Enabling Concepts

Microwave Vacuum Electronic Devices: Enabling Concepts covers vacuum electronic devices (VEDs) operating in the microwave to terahertz frequency regime. The book aims to equip students, teachers, scientists, and engineers with an understanding of the concepts and physical principles underpinning VEDs. VEDs have manifold applications in technologies used in defense, civilian, medical, scientific, and industrial sectors. The authors build confidence among the readers seeking to design and develop VEDs in these sectors by presenting enabling concepts and step-by-step guides to the mathematical formulations used in VEDs in the microwave, millimeter-wave, and terahertz frequency range. Chapters covering important physical principles, including space-charge waves, cyclotron waves, and electron bunching (both relativistic and non-relativistic), are followed by discussions of techniques for improving the performance of VEDs. The book will be a useful reference for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and industry professionals seeking to understand and develop their own VEDs.

Key Features:

• Discusses practical concepts that enable readers to develop independent thinking in the design and development of VEDs.
• Provides detailed mathematical steps that make the design and development of VEDs easier to understand.
• Presents end-of-chapter questions and hints throughout to aid teaching and learning.

Vishal Kesari received an MSc (Physics) degree from Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, India, and a PhD (Electronics Engineering) degree from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (IT-BHU) (now known as the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-BHU)), India, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. Currently, he is a senior scientist at Microwave Tube Research and Development Centre (MTRDC), Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Bengaluru, India. Dr. Kesari is the recipient of many prestigious awards. He is internationally acclaimed for authoring/co-authoring journal papers and books.

BN Basu received BTech, MTech, and PhD degrees from the Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics, Calcutta University, in 1965, 1966, and 1976, respectively. He is superannuated as Professor and Head of the Electronics Engineering Department and Coordinator of the Centre of Research in Microwave Tubes at the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), now known as the Indian Institute of Technology-BHU. Currently, he holds the position of Distinguished Adjunct Professor at the Supreme Knowledge Foundation Group of Institutions (SKFGI) in Mankundu, West Bengal, India. Professor Basu is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the John Robinson Pierce Award of the IEEE Electron Devices Society, USA (2023) for Excellence in Vacuum Electronics. He is well known for authoring/co-authoring journal papers and books.