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To improve RF source performance and operate at higher frequencies, designers are investigating distributed beam devices, including sheet beam and multiple beam sources. Non-axially symmetric geometries provide significant challenges for computational design. In addition to the increased computational resources required, the available parameter space makes manual design difficult or impractical. This...
Calabazas Creek Research, Inc. (CCR) and North Carolina State University (NCSU) are funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to develop optimization techniques for designing complex, 3D devices. Work is in progress to design a sheet beam electron device with a non-periodic magnetic field and a doubly convergent multiple beam electron gun. The sheet beam research is using optimization to develop iron...
An automated, GUI-accessible optimizer has been implemented into Beam Optics Analyzer; the optimizer uses iterative methods to model electron guns and surface electric fields. Beam Optics Analyzer (BOA) is an adaptive mesh, finite element, charged particle trajectory modeling tool for designing 3D electron devices. Previous research included the optimized design of Brillouin focused electron guns...
An automated, GUI-accessible optimizer has been implemented into Beam Optics Analyzer; the optimizer uses iterative methods to model electron guns and surface electric fields.
Iterative computational design of asymmetrical electron beam devices, such as sheet beam and multiple beam klystrons, requires 3D analysis involving complex geometries. Manual, iterative design is extremely difficult and impractical for all but the simplest devices. Computer optimization tools and techniques are described that provide automated design of these devices using common personal computers...
Three-dimensional design codes are allowing the development of more complex electron beam devices with significant performance improvements over axially symmetric devices. Distributed beam RF devices, including multiple-beam and sheet-beam designs, allow significant reduction in operating voltage with improved efficiency and bandwidth. The increased parameter space, however, makes the design process...
Computer optimization can dramatically reduce the time and cost to design electron beam devices. It also allows design of complex, 3D devices that would be impractical with manual design. Recent implementation of a magnetic solver into a 3D finite element electron beam trajectory code is allowing optimized design of the electrostatic, optical and magnetic configuration of 3D device. The process and...
Calabazas Creek Research, Inc. (CCR) and North Carolina State University are developing optimization techniques for advanced, 3D, electron guns. Our approach uses advanced solid modeling CAD programs capable of controlling geometrical parameters with design tables manipulated by an optimization control program. Geometrical and parametric changes are simulated using a 3D, finite element, adaptive meshing...
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