Alan Phelps
FRSE, Professor of Experimental Plasma Physics
Alan obtained his MA from Cambridge and his DPhil from Oxford. He is Professor of Plasma Physics.
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Research
Research summary
Highlights
Founding Member of both the Steering Committee and Management Committee of the UK HPRF Faraday Partnership (DTI/PPARC; 2001-2007)
UK representative on international conference committees including International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS), 2004, 2008, International Conference on Phenomena in Ionised Gases (ICPIG), 2003, 2005, 2007
Plenary addresses include International Conference on Strong Microwaves in Plasmas, Russia 2002 and ITG Conference on Vacuum Electronics and Displays, Germany 2004; Invited talks include International Vacuum Electronics Conference, Japan 2007.
Selected publications
I.V.Konoplev, P.McGrane, W.He, A.W.Cross, A.D.R.Phelps, C.G.Whyte, K.Ronald, C.W.Robertson, "Experimental study of coaxial free-electron maser based on two-dimensional distributed feedback", Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 035002 (2006) doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.035002
I.V.Konoplev, P.McGrane, A.D.R.Phelps, A.W.Cross, K.Ronald, "Observation of photonic band-gap control in one-dimensional Bragg structures", Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 121104 (2005) doi: 10.1063/1.2043245
W.L.He, K.Ronald, A.R.Young, A.W.Cross, A.D.R.Phelps, C.G.Whyte, E.G.Rafferty, J.Thomson, C.W.Robertson, D.C.Speirs, S.V.Samsonov, V.L.Bratman, G.G.Denisov, "Gyro-BWO experiments using a helical interaction waveguide", IEEE Trans. Elect. Devices 52, 839-844 (2005) doi: 10.1109/TED.2005.845858
S.V.Samsonov, A.D.R.Phelps, V.L.Bratman, G.Burt, G.G.Denisov, A.W.Cross, K.Ronald, W.He, H.Yin, "Compression of frequency-modulated pulses using helically corrugated waveguides and its potential for generating multigigawatt rf radiation", Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 118301 (2004) doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.118301
G.Burt, S.V.Samsonov, K.Ronald, G.G.Denisov, A.R.Young, V.L.Bratman, A.D.R.Phelps, A.W.Cross, I.V.Konoplev, W.He, J.Thomson, C.G.Whyte, "Dispersion of helically corrugated waveguides: Analytical, numerical, and experimental study", Phys. Rev. E 70, 046402 (2004) doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.046402
D.C.Speirs, A.D.R.Phelps, I.V.Konoplev, A.W.Cross, W.He, "Simulation of high power broadband cyclotron autoresonance maser amplifier and electron beam experiments", Rev. Sci. Instrum. 75, 826-831 (2004) doi: 10.1063/1.1669121
I.V.Konoplev, A.D.R.Phelps, A.W.Cross, K.Ronald, "Experimental studies of the influence of distributed power losses on the transparency of two-dimensional surface photonic band-gap structures", Phys. Rev. E 68, 066613 (2003) doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.68.066613
N.S.Ginzburg, I.V.Zotova, A.S.Sergeev, R.M.Rozental, A.D.R.Phelps, A.W.Cross, K.Ronald, "Theory of cyclotron super-radiance from a moving electron bunch under group synchronism condition", Phys. Plasmas 10, 4494-4503 (2003) doi: 10.1063/1.1608016
A.W.Cross, I.V.Konoplev, K.Ronald, A.D.R.Phelps, W.He, C.G.Whyte, N.S.Ginzburg, N.Y.Peskov, A.S.Sergeev, "Experimental studies of two-dimensional coaxial Bragg structures for a high-power free-electron maser", Appl. Phys. Lett. 80, 1517-1519 (2002) doi: 10.1063/1.1456553
N.S.Ginzburg, N.Y.Peskov, A.S.Sergeev, A.D.R.Phelps, A.W.Cross, I.V.Konoplev, "The use of a hybrid resonator consisting of one-dimensional and two-dimensional Bragg reflectors for generation of spatially coherent radiation in a coaxial free-electron laser", Phys. Plasmas 9, 2798-2802 (2002) doi: 10.1063/1.1476664
K.Ronald, A.W.Cross, A.D.R.Phelps, W.He, "Observations of dynamic behaviour in an electron cyclotron maser oscillator", J. Phys. D 34, L17-L22 (2001) doi: 10.1088/0022-3727/34/3/104
Current Grants
Alan Phelps, Kevin Ronald, Bob Bingham, , ,
EPSRC (2009-2013) £1026225
Title: Instabilities in non-thermal plasmas
Alan Phelps, Kevin Ronald, Adrian Cross, Wenlong He, ,
EPSRC (2009-2012) £771109
Title: High power mm and sub-mm wave amplifiers for high frequency ESR/DNP, high resolution radar and remote sensing
Adrian Cross, Alan Phelps, Kevin Ronald, , ,
EPSRC (2008-2012) £686058
Title: Generation of high power, high frequency radiation using high brightness pseudospark-sourced relativistic electron beams
