2017 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference

Session

Plenary Session 3 - Haas Award Winner : Ronald Gilgenbach

21 Jun 2017, 08:45

Hilton Brighton Metropole Hotel

478. Plasma Physics Education and Research Enabled by Pulsed Power*

Ronald M. Gilgenbach (University of Michigan )

21/06/2017, 08:45

Plenary Talk

Oral

This presentation will retrace the author’s ~40-year journey to transform pulsed power machines into plasma physics experiments for the purpose of educating students in research. Early experiments on electron beam instabilities (ion-hose, beam-breakup-instability), relativistic gyrotrons, magnetrons and recent Recirculating Planar Magnetron (RPM) experiments utilized an Marx-Abramyan generator...