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20 November 2025

The models of excitation of quasiperiodic ELF/VLF emissions with spectral shape repetition periods from 10 to 300 s are discussed. The primary cause of quasiperiodic (QP) emissions is cyclotron instability of electron radiation belts. Relatively slow...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,631 Views
9 Pages

30 December 2020

This paper investigates the nature of the physical processes underlying the origin of the Ion Cyclotron Waves (ICWs) and Kinetic Alfvén Waves (KAWs) in the solar wind, by studying their Waiting Time Distributions (WTDs). The results show that...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,308 Views
37 Pages

23 February 2021

Featured observations of high frequency (HF) heating experiments are first introduced; the uniqueness of each observation is presented; the likely cause and physical process of each observed phenomenon instigated by the HF heating are discussed. A sp...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,628 Views
10 Pages

Design and Analysis of Slotted Waveguide Antenna Radiating in a “Plasma-Shaped” Cavity of an ECR Ion Source

  • Giorgio Sebastiano Mauro,
  • Giuseppe Torrisi,
  • Ornella Leonardi,
  • Angelo Pidatella,
  • Gino Sorbello and
  • David Mascali

8 February 2021

The design of a microwave antenna sustaining a high-energy-content plasma in Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Sources (ECRISs) is, under many aspects, similar to the design of a conventional antenna but presenting also peculiarities because of the an...

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  • Open Access
246 Views
8 Pages

19 December 2025

The system made by a charged particle interacting with a single electrostatic wave which propagates perpendicularly to the magnetic field, at a frequency larger than the cyclotron one, has been extensively studied in the literature due to its implica...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,329 Views
14 Pages

4 November 2024

This article implements the Hirota bilinear (HB) transformation technique to the Landau–Ginzburg–Higgs (LGH) model to explore the nonlinear evolution behavior of the equation, which describes drift cyclotron waves in superconductivity. Ut...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,223 Views
20 Pages

A klystron-like gyro-amplifier based on the excitation of a wave propagating across a spatially developed (in the transverse direction) electron beam is described within the simplest 2-D model. Such a configuration is attractive as a way of implement...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,867 Views
13 Pages

31 August 2023

The power spectra of the magnetic field at ion kinetic scales have been found to be significantly influenced by Alfvén ion–cyclotron (AIC) waves. Here, we study whether and how this influence of the AIC wave depends on the θVB angl...

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  • Open Access
2,083 Views
12 Pages

20 October 2022

Currently, spatially localized electron densities and currents are considered to be candidates for use in the encoding of quantum information. For this reason, the control of their temporal dynamics is an important task. In this work, the spatiotempo...

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  • Open Access
1,291 Views
17 Pages

29 August 2024

In a Wilberforce pendulum, two mechanical oscillators are coupled: one pertains to the longitudinal (tension) motion and the other to the rotational (twisting) motion. It is shown that the longitudinal magnetic moment of circular currents, and simila...

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  • Open Access
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9 Pages

Locally Generated Whistler-Mode Waves Before Dipolarization Fronts

  • Boning Zhao,
  • Chengming Liu,
  • Jinbin Cao,
  • Yangyang Liu and
  • Xining Xing

29 July 2025

Whistler-mode waves, electromagnetic emissions with frequencies between the lower hybrid and electron cyclotron frequencies, are ubiquitous in planetary magnetotails. They are known to play a vital role in electron scattering and acceleration, origin...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,337 Views
26 Pages

This manuscript studies the M-fractional Landau–Ginzburg–Higgs (M-fLGH) equation in comprehending superconductivity and drift cyclotron waves in radially inhomogeneous plasmas, especially for coherent ion cyclotron wave propagation, aimin...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,970 Views
15 Pages

Mechanisms of coherent spontaneous cyclotron and undulator radiations of short dense bunches, in which electrons move along the same stationary helical trajectories, but have different dynamic properties, have been compared in detail. The results are...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,000 Views
17 Pages

Radio-Frequency Undulators, Cyclotron Auto Resonance Maser and Free Electron Lasers

  • Emanuele Di Palma,
  • Silvio Ceccuzzi,
  • Gian Luca Ravera,
  • Elio Sabia,
  • Ivan Spassovsky and
  • Giuseppe Dattoli

13 October 2021

We discuss a hybrid Free Electron Laser (FEL) architecture operating with a RF undulator provided by a powerful Cyclotron Auto-Resonance Maser (CARM). We outline the design elements to operate a compact X-ray device. We review the essential aspects o...

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1 Citations
1,684 Views
12 Pages

An electrodynamic system is described that provides the creation of an electromagnetic wave field of high intensity at a frequency of 1 THz due to a combination of accumulation in time and compression in space of a wave pulse coming from an electron...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,596 Views
13 Pages

Transformation of the Shape and Spectrum of an Ultrawideband Electromagnetic Pulse in a “Gigantic” Coaxial Line Filled with Magnetized Plasma

  • Ilya Zudin,
  • Mikhail Gushchin,
  • Sergey Korobkov,
  • Askold Strikovskiy,
  • Alexandr Katkov,
  • Vasiliy Kochedykov and
  • Irina Petrova

14 January 2024

A propagation of ultrawideband electromagnetic pulses (UWB EMPs) through magnetized plasma has been experimentally studied using a “gigantic” coaxial line, which has been developed at IAP RAS for laboratory modeling of ionospheric effects...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,584 Views
20 Pages

Automatic Detection of Quasi-Periodic Emissions from Satellite Observations by Using DETR Method

  • Zilin Ran,
  • Chao Lu,
  • Yunpeng Hu,
  • Dehe Yang,
  • Xiaoying Sun and
  • Zeren Zhima

3 August 2024

The ionospheric quasi-periodic wave is a type of typical and common electromagnetic wave phenomenon occurring in extremely low-frequency (ELF) and very low-frequency ranges (VLF). These emissions propagate in a distinct whistler-wave mode, with varyi...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,311 Views
15 Pages

2 December 2024

The peniotron is a fast-wave vacuum tube that can generate coherent microwave radiation in the millimeter-wave range. Although it uses a beam of gyrating electrons like other gyro-devices (gyrotron, gyro-TWT, gyro-BWO, etc.), its operating principle...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,256 Views
17 Pages

A Case Study of Pc1 Waves Observed at the Polar Cap Associated with Proton Precipitation at Subauroral Latitudes

  • Giulia D’Angelo,
  • Patrizia Francia,
  • Marcello De Lauretis,
  • Alexandra Parmentier,
  • Tero Raita and
  • Mirko Piersanti

11 February 2024

The importance of ElectroMagnetic Ion Cyclotron (EMIC) ultra-low-frequency (ULF) waves (and their Pc1 counterparts) is connected to their critical role in triggering energetic particle precipitation from the magnetosphere to the conjugated ionosphere...

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  • Open Access
2,712 Views
27 Pages

17 August 2020

Motion and radiative transitions of an electron in a magnetic field under the influence of an external electromagnetic wave are studied for various confining conditions in semiconductor, graphene, in quantum wells, and relativistic generalization in...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,999 Views
12 Pages

23 December 2022

Turbulence in space plasmas usually exhibits an energy cascade in which large-scale magnetic fluctuations are dominated by non-linear MHD wave–wave interactions following a Kolmogorov-like power-law spectrum. In addition, at scales at which kin...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1,936 Views
12 Pages

The possibility to control both spectral and polarization properties of seed THz pulses in strongly nonequilibrium elongated magnetized plasma channels formed via intense UV femtosecond laser pulses in nitrogen (air) is analyzed. The physical mechani...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,903 Views
14 Pages

12 April 2022

In the present paper, a model for the pulsed γ-ray emission of the Crab pulsar from 0.01 GeV to 1 TeV in the context of synchrotron emission generated in the vicinity of a light cylinder is developed. The generation of such high energies throug...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,460 Views
16 Pages

7 May 2020

We show that the Rashba spin-orbit interaction causes spin-twisting itinerant motion of electrons in metals and realizes the quantized cyclotron orbits of conduction electrons without an external magnetic field. From the view point of the Berry conne...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,844 Views
14 Pages

Three-Dimensional Rogue Waves in Earth’s Ionosphere

  • Wael F. El-Taibany,
  • Nabila A. El-Bedwehy,
  • Nora A. El-Shafeay and
  • Salah K. El-Labany

The modulational instability of ion-acoustic waves (IAWs) in a four-component magneto-plasma system consisting of positive–negative ions fluids and non-Maxwellian (r,q) distributed electrons and positrons, is investigated. The basic system of fluid e...

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4 Citations
4,530 Views
29 Pages

2 June 2019

We address the mechanisms underlying low-frequency zonal flow generation in a turbulent system through the parametric decay of collisionless trapped particle modes and its feedback on the stabilization of the system. This model is in connection with...

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12 Citations
2,737 Views
15 Pages

A Validation Roadmap of Multi-Physics Simulators of the Resonator of MW-Class CW Gyrotrons for Fusion Applications

  • Laura Savoldi,
  • Konstantinos A. Avramidis,
  • Ferran Albajar,
  • Stefano Alberti,
  • Alberto Leggieri and
  • Francisco Sanchez

1 December 2021

For a few years the multi-physics modelling of the resonance cavity (resonator) of MW-class continuous-wave gyrotrons, to be employed for electron cyclotron heating and current drive in magnetic confinement fusion machines, has gained increasing inte...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,035 Views
17 Pages

Electron Temperature Anisotropy Effects on Alpha/Proton Instability in the Solar Wind

  • Si-Yi Lang,
  • Liang Xiang,
  • Qiu-Huan Li,
  • Wen-Lu Zhang and
  • Hong-Wei Yu

7 September 2022

In situ recordings by the solar Wind spacecraft reveal the ubiquitousness of alpha particles, whose drift velocities to the background proton vα are generally less than or equal to the local Alfvén velocity vA. The alpha beam instability...

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2 Citations
2,253 Views
13 Pages

Two-Dimensional Surface Topological Nanolayers and Dirac Fermions in Single Crystals of the Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor (Cd1−x−yZnxMny)3As2 (x + y = 0.3)

  • Vasilii Zakhvalinskii,
  • Tatyana Nikulicheva,
  • Evgeny Pilyuk,
  • Oleg Ivanov,
  • Aleksey Kochura,
  • Alexander Kuzmenko,
  • Erkki Lähderanta and
  • Alexander Morocho

30 October 2020

Features in the transverse magnetoresistance of single-crystalline diluted magnetic semiconductors of a (Cd1−x−yZnxMny)3As2 system with x + y = 0.3 have been found and analyzed in detail. Two groups of samples have been examined. The samp...

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1,921 Views
8 Pages

Electron Emission Cross Section from Methane under 250 keV Proton Impact

  • Debasmita Chakraborty,
  • László Gulyás and
  • Lokesh C. Tribedi

4 March 2023

We measure double differential cross sections (DDCS) of electrons emitted from CH4 molecules in collisions with 250 keV protons. The projectile ions are obtained from a 400 kV electron cyclotron resonance-based ion accelerator (ECRIA). We study the e...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,628 Views
17 Pages

A New Lumped Approach for the Simulation of the Magnetron Injection Gun for MegaWatt-Class EU Gyrotrons

  • Nicolò Badodi,
  • Antonio Cammi,
  • Alberto Leggieri,
  • Francisco Sanchez and
  • Laura Savoldi

8 April 2021

In the framework of the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) project, one of the key components of the reactor is the ECRH (Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating). This system has the duty to heat the plasma inside the tokamak, usin...

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4 Citations
2,835 Views
16 Pages

31 December 2022

It is predicted that in ITER, due to high values of electron temperature and magnetic field strength, electron cyclotron (EC) radiation emitted by plasma will be a significant source (together with external EC radiation injected for auxiliary plasma...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,008 Views
14 Pages

11 April 2025

The study explores the optical and transport properties of polycrystalline ZnO thin films prepared using reactive pulsed mid-frequency sputtering with RF electron cyclotron wave resonance (ECWR) plasma. This deposition method increases the ionization...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,053 Views
14 Pages

Semiconducting p-Type Copper Iron Oxide Thin Films Deposited by Hybrid Reactive-HiPIMS + ECWR and Reactive-HiPIMS Magnetron Plasma System

  • Zdenek Hubička,
  • Martin Zlámal,
  • Jiri Olejníček,
  • Drahoslav Tvarog,
  • Martin Čada and
  • Josef Krýsa

3 March 2020

A reactive high-power impulse magnetron sputtering (r-HiPIMS) and a reactive high-power impulse magnetron sputtering combined with electron cyclotron wave resonance plasma source (r-HiPIMS + ECWR) were used for the deposition of p-type CuFexOy thin f...

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8 Citations
2,705 Views
23 Pages

10 June 2023

The formation and localization of sporadic E (Es) layers predicted by the ion vertical drift velocity and its vertical change in the lower thermosphere during nighttime are shown analytically and by numerical simulations. The consideration of the exi...