Recent Advances in High-Power Electromagnetics

Felix Vega is the chief researcher at the Directed Energy Research Center (DERC); a Center affiliated with the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He oversees the applied research and development programs on high-power electromagnetics, EMC, high Energy lasers, and sensing systems. He is secretary of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. Nicolas Mora is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia. In 2018, he received the HPEM Fellow award from the Summa Foundation, and in 2019, the Motohisa Kanda Most Cited IEEE Transactions in EMC Paper Award. Since 2022, he has been associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. In 2023, he joined the Board of Directors of the IEEE EMC Society as a representative of R9. Edl Schamiloglu is a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of New Mexico, USA. He is also director of the Directed Energy Center at the University of New Mexico (DEC@UNM). He has co-authored over 500 refereed journal and conference papers, and nine patents. His publications have been cited over 10,000 times. Professor Schamiloglu is a fellow of the IEEE, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and an EMP fellow (sponsored by the Summa Foundation). Chaouki Kasmi is the chief innovation officer at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), Abu Dhabi, UAE. Dr. Kasmi has co-authored more than 200 scientific papers. He also is an associate electromagnetics scientist and researcher at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Helmut Schmidt University. He serves as a vice president of the Commission E French Section and vice chair of the International Commission E of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). His scientific interests are the R&D of Directed Energy systems, Radars and Electro-optics.

Chapter 1: Recent advances in high-power electromagnetics
Chapter 2: Semi-analytical gray-box modeling of antennas in the time domain and application to impulse radiating antennas
Chapter 3: A demonstrator for Remote Induction of Disturbance for Access Denial in L-band (RIDAD)
Chapter 4: Directed Energy Center at the University of New Mexico (DEC@UNM)
Chapter 5: Compact and efficient mode converter for HPEM applications in L band
Chapter 6: Design and characterization of the tapered impedance half impulse radiating antenna, TI-HIRA
Chapter 7: Cathode edge effect and divergence of emitted electron beams in vircator
Chapter 8: Use of C-UAS system and its EM effect analysis
Chapter 9: Real-time shielding compromise and detection
Chapter 10: Financial comparative analysis of substation HPEM mitigation designs
Chapter 11: Three-dimensional FDTD-based lightning transient analysis of secondary circuits with shielded control cables over grounding structures in a substation
Chapter 12: An introduction to a resilience-based approach to transient high-power electromagnetic disturbance mitigation
Chapter 13: Susceptibility of switch-mode power supplies due to conducted pulse from HEMP
Chapter 14: Electromagnetic security: threat models and exploitation scenarios exploiting susceptibility to HPEM
Chapter 15: Development of a 1D and 2D slotted waveguide antenna arrays in S-band for multi-megawatt applications