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Prototype mitre bends of the ex-vessel waveguide system for the ITER upper launcher: Thermal hydraulic simulations and experiments with off-center mm-wave beams

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High power mm-wave loss measurements of ITER ex-vessel waveguide components at the FALCON test facility at the Swiss Plasma Center

Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Anastasia Xydou

Many future fusion devices will rely heavily, if not solely, on electron cyclotron (EC) heating subsystems to provide bulk heating, instability control (neoclassical tearing mode (NTM) stabilization), and thermal instability control. Efficient use of the i ...

E D P SCIENCES2023

Biomaterial devices on Arecanut palm leaf for microwave applications

Anja Skrivervik, Sujith Raman

This paper presents an investigation on the possibility of arecanut palm leaf as a biomaterial substrate for various microwave devices such as transmission lines, antenna, filter and a radio frequency identification device (RFID). The dielectric properties ...

IEEE2023

Modelling of nonneutral plasmas trapped by electric and magnetic fields relevant to gyrotron electron guns

Guillaume Michel Le Bars

Gyrotrons are a class of high-power vacuum-electronics microwave sources, which are envisioned to play an important role in the domain of magnetically confined fusion plasmas. Indeed, only gyrotrons are capable of producing continuous electromagnetic waves ...

EPFL2023

Fluid-dynamic and thermo-mechanical analyses of the Monoblock Mitre Bend for the ITER electron cyclotron Upper launcher

Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Avelino Mas Sanchez

The ITER Electron Cyclotron Heating (ECH) system will be used to counteract magneto-hydrodynamic plasma instabilities by aiming up to 20 MW of mm-wave power at 170 GHz. The primary vacuum boundary at the Electron Cyclotron Upper Launcher (EC UL) extends in ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2021

A Closed Time-Reversal Cavity for Electromagnetic Waves in Transmission Line Networks

Mario Paolone, Marcos Rubinstein, Zhaoyang Wang, Reza Razzaghi

A closed time-reversal (TR) cavity has been considered a purely theoretical concept whose experimental realization was assumed to be impossible. In this article, we demonstrate that it is, in fact, possible to realize a closed TR cavity using a network of ...

2021

Integration concept of an Electron Cyclotron System in DEMO

Minh Quang Tran, René Chavan, Hartmut Zohm, Konstantinos Avramidis

The pre-conceptual layout for an electron cyclotron system (ECS) in DEMO is described. The present DEMO ECS considers only equatorial ports for both plasma heating and neoclassical tearing mode (NTM) control. This differs from ITER, where four launchers in ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2021

Movement-Related Cortical Potentials in Embodied Virtual Mirror Visual Feedback

Gangadhar Garipelli, Tamara Rossy

Background: Mirror therapy is thought to drive interhemispheric communication, resulting in a balanced activation. We hypothesized that embodied virtual mirror visual feedback (VR-MVF) presented on a computer screen may produce a similar activation. In thi ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2021

Megawatt power generation of the dual-frequency gyrotron for TCV at 84 and 126 GHz, in long pulses

Timothy Goodman, Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Damien Fasel, Matthieu Toussaint, Ugo Siravo, Jérémy Genoud, Jérémie Dubray, Jonathan Sylvain Masur, Christian Moura, Ioannis Pagonakis, Blaise Marlétaz, Konstantinos Avramidis

In the frame of the TCV Tokamak upgrade, two 84/126 GHz/2 s dual frequency gyrotrons designed by SPC and KIT and manufactured by THALES will be added to the existing EC-System. The first unit has been delivered to EPFL-SPC and tested. In the commissioning ...

2020

Design and Thermal-Structural Analyses of Ancillary Components for the Optical Steering Mirror (M4) for the ITER ECH Upper Launcher

Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Matteo Vagnoni

Each of the four ITER Electron Cyclotron Heating Upper Launcher (ECHUL) features eight transmission lines (TLs) that are used to inject 170-GHz microwave power into the plasma at a level of up to 1.31 MW (at the TL diamond window) per line. The millimeter ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

A Closed Time-Reversal Cavity for Electromagnetic Waves in Transmission Line Networks

Mario Paolone, Marcos Rubinstein, Zhaoyang Wang, Reza Razzaghi

A closed time-reversal cavity has been considered a purely theoretical concept whose experimental realization was assumed to be impossible. In this paper, we demonstrate that it is, in fact, possible to realize a closed time-reversal cavity using a network ...

2020

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