"Checkerboard Plasma Electromagnetic Surface for Wideband and Wide-Angle Bistatic Radar Cross Section Reduction"

A PUBLICATION OF THE IEEE NUCLEAR AND PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETY

SPECIAL ISSUE ON INVITED AND TUTORIAL PAPERS FROM ICOPS 2016

SPECIAL ISSUE PAPERS
Modeling of Resonant Surface Wave Excitation in a Large CCP Reactor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D. Eremin
Kinetic Simulation of Spacecraft–Environment Interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R. Marchand and P. A. Resendiz Lira
Transverse 2-D Gliding Arc Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. F. Gutsol and S. P. Gangoli
Influence of Time-Modulation of Applied Current on Arc Stability in DC Pulsed Plasma Spray Torch . . . . . F. Mavier, V. Rat, and J.-F. Coudert
Generalization of Microdischarge Scaling Laws for All Gases at Atmospheric Pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. M. Loveless and A. L. Garner
On the Evolution From Micrometer-Scale Inhomogeneity to Global Overheated Structure During the Intense Joule Heating of a
     z-Pinch Rod . . . . . . . . . . . . . T. J. Awe, E. P. Yu, K. C. Yates, W. G. Yelton, B. S. Bauer, T. M. Hutchinson, S. Fuelling, and B. B. Mckenzie

REGULAR PAPERS
Basic Processes in Fully and Partially Ionized Plasmas
Application of the Position-State Separation Method to Simulate Streamer Discharges in Arbitrary Geometries . . . . . . . L. Liu and M. Becerra

Microwave Generation and Microwave-Plasma Interaction
Checkerboard Plasma Electromagnetic Surface for Wideband and Wide-Angle Bistatic Radar Cross Section Reduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. Ghayekhloo, M. Afsahi, and A. A. Orouji
Design Study of GW-THz Wave Transmission Without Mode Competition in an Oversized Relativistic Backward Wave Oscillator . . . . . . . . . . .
      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S.-H. Min, O. Kwon, M. Sattorov, H. Jung, I.-K. Baek, S. Kim, A. Bera, R. K. Barik, R. Bhattacharya, and G.-S. Park
Excitation of Electromagnetic Waves Above the Upper-Hybrid Frequency by Internal Gyrating Electron Beam in a Coaxial Waveguide . . . . . .
     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I. O. Girka and M. Thumm
Experimental Study of a Triode Reflex Geometry Vircator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . V. Baryshevsky, A. Gurinovich, E. Gurnevich, and P. Molchanov
Influence of Time-Varying Plasma Sheath on the Lock Condition of Phase-Locked Loop for TT&C Carrier Tracking System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. Zhu, X. Li, L. Shi, Y. Liu, and B. Yao
Numerical Study of a Low-Voltage Gyrotron (“Gyrotrino”) for DNP/NMR Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . V. L. Bratman, A. E. Fedotov, Y. K. Kalynov, P. B. Makhalov, and I. V. Osharin
A W-Band TE₁₂-Mode Input Converter With Nonuniform Bragg Cavities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G. Liu, Y. Wang, and B. Zhang
Inductive Meandered Metal Line Metamaterial for Rectangular Waveguide Linings . . . . . . . T. Rowe, P. Forbes, J. H. Booske, and N. Behdad

Charged Particle Beams and Sources
Hydrogen Plasma Characterization at Low Pressure in 2.45 GHz Electron Cyclotron Resonance Proton Ion Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P. Roychowdhury, L. Mishra, H. Kewlani, and S. Gharat

Industrial, Commercial, and Medical Applications of Plasmas
Parametric Study of Paraelectric and Peristaltic Pulsed DBD Plasma Actuation for Aerodynamic Flow Control Based on PIV . . . . . . . . . . . . .
      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F. Li, C. Gao, B. Zheng, Y. Wang, Z. Lv, and B. Wu
Methane Incorporation Into Liquid Fuel by Nonequilibrium Plasma Discharges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. Liu, I. Chernets, H.-F. Ji, J. Smith, A. Rabinovich, D. Dobrynin, and A. Fridman
Effects of Dielectric Tube Shape and Pin-Electrode Diameter on the Plasma Plume in Atmospheric Pressure Helium Plasma Jets . . . . . . . . .
      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H. R. Kang, T. H. Chung, H. M. Joh, and S. J. Kim

Pulsed Power Science and Technology
Breakdown Characteristics of Ferroelectric Glass-Ceramic Dielectric for Pulsed Power Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .P. Jiang, J. Yuan, H. Liu, L. Wang H. Li, W. Xie, and Q. Zhang
Energy Transfer Efficiency Optimization in an Electromagnetic Railgun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R. T. Meyer, R. A. DeCarlo, and J. Dickerson
Streamer Branching and Spectroscopic Characteristics of Surface Discharge on Water Under Different Pulsed Voltages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T. Furusato, T. Sadamatsu, Y. Matsuda, and T. Yamashita

Arcs & MHD
Nonlinear Compressional Alfvén Waves in a Fully Relativistic Electron–Positron Plasma . . . . . . . . . . . T. I. Rajib, S. Sultana, and A. A. Mamun
A Multiphysics Simulation Approach for Efficient Modeling of Lightning Strike Tests on Aircraft Structures . . . . . . . G. F. Abdelal and A. Murphy

Dusty Plasmas
Dust-Acoustic Solitons in a Polarized Dusty Plasma With Nonthermal Ions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K. Bentabet and M. Tribeche

Special Issue on Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas and Their Applications
Initial Features of the Unintended Atmospheric Pressure DC Arcs and Their Application on the Fault Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L. Zhu, J. Li, Y. Liu, and S. Ji
Characteristics of Shallow Traps in the Dielectric Surface and Their Effects on Diffuse Dielectric Barrier Discharge in Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H. Luo, J. Jiao, K. Liu, Y. Yue, and X. Wang

Special Issue - Selected papers from APSPT9/SPSM28
Investigation of Effect of Needle Electrode Configuration on Microplasma Discharge Process in Sea Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . V. Gamaleev, J.-S. Oh, H. Furuta, and A. Hatta

Special Issue on Plasma Assisted Technologies 2016
Effects of Neon and Argon Atmospheric-Pressure Plasma Jets on Coumarin Dissolved in Solvents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M. Tanişli and E. Taşal

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Call for Papers-Special Issue on Pulsed Power Science and Technology
Call for Papers-Special Issue on Plasma-Assisted Technologies
Call for Papers-Special Issue on High Power Microwave Generation 2018
Call for Papers-Special Issue on the 8th International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas