Kevin Ronald
Senior Lecturer

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

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

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

Kevin Ronald, , , , ,
STFC (2012-2016) £306591
Title: Proposal for Continuation of UK Participation in the International Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment

Alan Phelps, Kevin Ronald, Bob Bingham, , ,
EPSRC (2009-2013) £1026225
Title: Instabilities in non-thermal plasmas

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MBDA UK Ltd. (2011-2012) £30000
Title: MBDA Studentships 2011-12

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

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Strathclyde - Research development fund (2011-2012) £33850
Title: REP-TMD Technologies Ltd

Kevin Ronald, , , , ,
MBDA UK Ltd. (2011-2012) £106000
Title: HiPED Programme - Novel Compact Microwave Sources

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Royal Society (2010-2012) £0
Title: Sources of coherent terahertz radiation for spectroscopy and diagnostic applications

Kevin Ronald, , , , ,
TMD Technologies Ltd (2011-2012) £19500
Title: TMD EPSRC KTA REP Programme: mm-Wave Sources for Biochemical Spectroscopy