Similarity theory and scaling laws determine how physical laws remain the same when
control parameters are changed, which is essential for the correlation, prediction, and …

Fundamental processes for electric breakdown, ie, electrode emission and bulk ionization,
as well as the resultant Paschen's law, are reviewed under various conditions. The effect of …

Homeland security and military defense technology considerations have stimulated intense
interest in mobile, high power sources of millimeter-wave (mmw) to terahertz (THz) regime …

In this Letter, the novel physics of higher harmonic (HH) generation of the normal electric
field near a dielectric surface is reported in multipactor induced plasma ionization …

Dielectric window breakdown is a serious challenge in high-power microwave (HPM)
transmission and radiation. Breakdown at the vacuum/dielectric interface is triggered by …

Recent progress made in the prediction, characterisation, and mitigation of multipactor
discharge is reviewed for single‐and two‐surface geometries. First, an overview of basic …

Triple point, defined as the junction of metal, dielectric, and vacuum, is the location where
electron emission is favored in the presence of a sufficiently strong electric field. In addition …

This work investigates multipactor discharge on a single dielectric surface with two carrier
frequencies of an rf electric field. We use Monte Carlo simulations and analytical …

It is of importance to suppress single-surface multipactor discharges in high power
microwave devices. In this work, both particle-in-cell (PIC) and Monte-Carlo simulations …

The mechanisms of nanosecond microwave-driven discharges near a dielectric/vacuum
interface were studied by measuring the time-and space-dependent optical emissions and …