Investigation of frequency-selective surfaces for a THz gyromultiplier output system

Xiang Li; Xiaoming Liu; Kevin Ronald; Wenlong He; Yang Zeng; Yasir Alfadhl; Robert Donnan; Adrian Cross; Xiaodong Chen

doi:10.1109/TED.2017.2746718

Investigation of frequency-selective surfaces for a THz gyromultiplier output system

Xiang Li
, Xiaoming Liu^*
, Kevin Ronald
, Wenlong He
, Yang Zeng
, Yasir Alfadhl
, Robert Donnan
, Adrian Cross
, Xiaodong Chen

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The recent development of some high-power THz vacuum electronic devices calls for the application of space filters such as frequency-selective surfaces (FSSs) and polarization dividers. This paper presents the comparative study of two types of FSSs for a THz gyromultiplier output system, one with high-pass characteristic while the other one with low-pass functionality. Both FSSs are designed, fabricated, and experimentally tested between 200 and 1600 GHz to verify their capability of separating the dual-frequency output from the gyromultiplier. The high-power operation capability of the FSSs is also characterized by taking both the corona discharge and volumetric breakdown into consideration at the frequencies of interest. Based on the comparative study of the performance, the fabrication challenge and the high-power capability between the two FSSs, a generalized conclusion is given regarding the choice of the FSSs for high-power THz application.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4678-4685
Number of pages	8
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Volume	64
Issue number	11
Early online date	8 Sept 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2017.2746718
Publication status	Published - 30 Nov 2017

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Manuscript received July 10, 2017; revised August 21, 2017; accepted August 24, 2017. Date of publication September 8, 2017; date of current version October 20, 2017. This work was supported in part by the National Nature Science Foundation of China under Contract 61401031 and in part by the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry. The review of this paper was arranged by Editor R. Carter. (Corresponding author: Xiaoming Liu.) X. Li, Y. Zeng, Y. Alfadhl, R. Donnan, and X. Chen are with the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, U.K. (e-mail: [email protected]).

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frequency-selective surface (FSS)
gyromultiplier
high-power breakdown
output systems

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