Additive vacuum electronics: Electron beam melting of copper

D. Gamzina, N. C. Luhmann, C. Ledford, T. Horn, I. Karakaut, L. Lin, P. Frigola

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Abstract

The construction of vacuum electronic devices is an artisan process; it requires extremes of high precision machining and assembly and the tolerances and feature sizes become more exacting as the frequency increases. Merging of copper additive manufacturing and electropolishing technologies will produce low-cost, high-throughput fabrication techniques for construction of fully integrated vacuum electronic devices. Technology demonstrations at two frequencies (S-Band and W-band) will address the demand for fast turnaround manufacturing of travelling wave tube amplifiers in legacy military systems as well as in the emerging high frequency applications.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIVEC 2017 - 18th International Vacuum Electronics Conference
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1-2
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781509059157
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event18th International Vacuum Electronics Conference, IVEC 2017 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: Apr 24 2017Apr 26 2017

Publication series

NameIVEC 2017 - 18th International Vacuum Electronics Conference
Volume2018-January

Conference

Conference18th International Vacuum Electronics Conference, IVEC 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period04/24/1704/26/17

Funding

This work was supported by the DARPA INVEST program, Contract N66001-16-1-4044 and by NSWD-Crane, STTR program, Contract N0025316P0261.

FundersFunder number
NSWD-CraneN0025316P0261
Defense Advanced Research Projects AgencyN66001-16-1-4044

    Keywords

    • Additive manufacturing
    • S-band
    • TWT
    • Vacuum electronics
    • W-band

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