Articles and Conference Proceedings

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Fabrication of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Antenna in Low Temperature Co-Fired Ceramic (with Jesse Taff, Mallory Yates, Carl Lee, Sonya Shawver, and Donald G. Plumlee), International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology (2013)

A miniature electrostatic thruster is being developed in Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic (LTCC) at Boise...

 

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Modeling the Characteristics of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Antenna for Use in a Micro-Propulsion System (with Sonya Shawver), IEEE 55th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (2012)

An ion thruster for small satellites is under development. The thruster uses an Inductively Coupled...

 

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Interaction Between Electromagnetic Waves and Transport in Saturated Media (with Mahsa Azad, Harlan Sangrey, Arvin Farid, and Elisa Barney Smith), Annual Congress of the Geo-Institute of ASCE (Geo-Congress) (2012)

Air sparging is one of the most popular remediation technologies. However, it is limited to...

 

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A Miniature Inductively Coupled Plasma Source for Ion Thrusters (with D. Plumlee, Sonya Shawver, Sin Ming Loo, Mallory Yates, and Jesse Taff), IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science (2011)

A small inductively coupled plasma source has been developed for use in an ion thruster....

 

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An Experimental Setup for Electromagnetic Stimulation of Geoenvironmental Applications (with Arvin Farid and Harlan Sangrey), ASCE, Proceedings of the Geo-Frontiers 2011 Conference, Geotechnical Special Publication (2011)

Cleaning contaminated soil/groundwater is important to federal and state agencies. Traditional contaminant removal methods are...

 

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A Faceted Magnetron Concept Using Field Emission Cathodes (with Jack Watrous), Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures (2011)

A magnetron concept using field emission cathodes has been modeled with the Air Force Research...

 

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Electron Hop Funnel Measurements and Comparison with the Lorentz-2E Simulation (with Charles Lester and Lael Matthews), IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science (2011)

Electron hop funnels have been fabricated using a Low Temperature Co-Fired Ceramic (LTCC). Measurements of...

 

A Magnetron Using Field Emission Cathodes (with Lael Matthews, Jack Watrous, Mark Eaton, and Nalin Kumar), 23rd International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference (IVNC), July 26-30, 2010, Piscataway, NJ (2010)

A cylindrical magnetron using field emission cathodes as the electron source is being developed. In...

 

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A Magnetron Using a Field Emission Cathode and a Faceted Geometry (with Jack Watrous, J. Luginsland, Mark Eaton, and Nalin Kumar), IEEE 37th International Conference on Plasma Sciences (ICOPS 2010), 20-24 June 2010, Piscataway, NJ (2010)

A cylindrical magnetron using Field Emission Arrays (FEAs) is being modeled to determine whether such...

 

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An Experimental Setup for Electromagnetic Stimulation of Air Sparging (with Arvin Farid and Harlan Sangrey), ASCE, Proceedings of GeoFlorida 2010, West Palm Beach, FL, February 20-24 (2010)

The task of cleaning leakage from aging underground tanks along with surface spills of gasoline...

 

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Electromagnetic Particle-in-Cell Modeling of a THz BWO (with J. Luginsland, Mark Eaton, and B. Fowler), IEEE 36th International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS), June 1-June 5, 2009, San Diego, CA (2009)

The THz spectrum is rapidly growing in importance for a variety of applications including molecular...

 

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Electron Hop Funnel Measurement and Simulation for Various Geometries and Materials (with Charles Lester and J. Luginsland), IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science-Abstracts, ICOPS, June 1-June 5, 2009, San Diego, CA (2009)

Vacuum electron hop funnel devices can be used to collect and spatially average electron emission...

 

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A Crossed-Field Amplifier Using a Distributed Field Emission Cathode (with Charles Lester and J. Luginsland), 22nd International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference, (IVNC) July 20-24, 2009, Hamamatsu, Japan (2009)

We propose to use an addressable array of emitters to provide a distributed electron source...

 

Student Mentored Work

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Effects of Electromagnetic Stimulation on Soil’s Hydraulic Conductivity (with Jonathan Rocha and Arvin Farid), College of Engineering Poster Presentations (2011)

Our research involves the identification of the different effects that electromagnetic (EM) stimulation has on...

 

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Mapping the Electric Fields for Geotechnical Applications (with Sara Kaster, Harlan Sangrey, Liam McCormick, Logan Jensen, Adam Spiegelman, and Arvin Farid), College of Engineering Poster Presentations (2011)

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC’s) such as gasoline are contaminating our country's groundwater. From leaky underground...

 

Selected Patents

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Method for Cleaning Phosphor Screens for Use with Field Emission Displays - Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, ID) - United States Patent 6409564 (with Zhongyi Xia, David A. Cathey, and Surjit S. Chadha) (2002)

A method for cleansing the phosphor screen of a display device comprising the removal of...

 

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Identifying and Disabling Shorted Electrodes in Field Emission Display - Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, ID) - United States Patent #6034480 (with John K. Lee and Tyler A. Lowrey) (2000)

Methods and apparatus for identifying and disabling shorted electrode pairs (such as field emitter tip...

 

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Fabrication of Field Emission Array with Vacuum Cathodic Arc Deposition - Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, ID) - United States Patent #6027619 (with David A. Cathey and Zhong-Yi Xia) (2000)

A filtered cathodic vacuum arc is used as a source of metal to generate a...