Advanced Technologies and Applications in High-Power Microwave and Plasma Interactions

Dear Colleagues,

RF/microwave systems are essential in all current wireless communication and a wide range of applications, including the households, accelerators, communication, astronomy, spectroscopy industries, and the medical profession. It is not an overstatement to say that RF/microwave technologies impact every area of our lives; they are everywhere, from the wireless doorbell to the keyless entry into our automobiles, from cooking to industrial heating, from cell phones to computer systems, and from medical to space technology. If the microwave power exceeds the peak power of 100 MW it is known as a high-power microwave (HPM). Developing high-power microwave technology might help with a variety of applications, including space and satellite missions, increasing the detection range of radar technology, communication systems, power beaming, linear collider, fusion heating, electronic warfare, and serving as a non-lethal weapon in military. The majority of HPM sources generate microwaves with low device efficiency, which is why improving efficiency is an ongoing subject of research in this area.

This Special Issue of the MDPI journal Applied Sciences entitled “Advanced Technologies and Applications in High-Power Microwave and Plasma Interactions” invites innovative papers, with a particular emphasis on current advances in the analysis, design, implementation, designing, and measurement of RF and microwave circuits and sources. A wide range of studies based on RF, microwave, and advanced wireless technologies, such as RF transceivers, power dividers/combiners, antennas, wireless power transfer, energy harvesting, high-power microwave generation, particle-in-cell simulation, microwave mode analysis, RF plasma, pulsed power technologies, vacuum tubes, millimeter-waves, terahertz sources, and so on, are of interest of this Special Issue. Authors are encouraged to submit both regular research articles and well-written review articles.

Dr. Sohail Mumtaz
Guest Editor

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