Ronald M. Gilgenbach

Research.com Recognitions

• 2006 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to high power microwave vacuum-electron devices.
• 1996 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering experimental research on electron cyclotron resonance heating in a tokamak, preionization by gyrotrons, electron beam transport and instabilities, and diagnostics of laserablated plasmas

Overview

Best Publications

• Multipactor discharge on metals and dielectrics: Historical review and recent theories

  R. A. Kishek;Y. Y. Lau;L. K. Ang;A. Valfells

  427
  Citations

• Folded waveguide traveling-wave tube sources for terahertz radiation

  S. Bhattacharjee;J.H. Booske;C.L. Kory;D.W. van der Weide

  289
  Citations

• Two-Dimensional Child-Langmuir Law.

  J. W. Luginsland;Y. Y. Lau;R. M. Gilgenbach

  245
  Citations

• Development and tests of fast 1-MA linear transformer driver stages

  A. A. Kim;M. G. Mazarakis;V. A. Sinebryukhov;B. M. Kovalchuk

  221
  Citations

• Heating at the Electron Cyclotron Frequency in the ISX-B Tokamak

  R. M. Gilgenbach;M. E. Read;K. E. Hackett;R. Lucey

  196
  Citations

• Power deposited on a dielectric by multipactor

  Lay-Kee Ang;Y.Y. Lau;R.A. Kishek;R.M. Gilgenbach

  174
  Citations

• Microwave absorption on a thin film

  Herman Bosman;Y. Y. Lau;R. M. Gilgenbach

  166
  Citations

• High-Current Linear Transformer Driver Development at Sandia National Laboratories

  Michael G Mazarakis;William E Fowler;K L LeChien;Finis W Long

  134
  Citations

• Electric field and electron orbits near a triple point

  Nicholas M. Jordan;Y. Y. Lau;David M. French;R. M. Gilgenbach

  133
  Citations

• Effects of an external magnetic field, and of oblique radio-frequency electric fields on multipactor discharge on a dielectric

  A. Valfells;L. K. Ang;Y. Y. Lau;R. M. Gilgenbach

  130
  Citations

• Dynamics of excimer laser‐ablated aluminum neutral atom plume measured by dye laser resonance absorption photography

  Ronald M. Gilgenbach;Peter L. G. Ventzek

  121
  Citations

• Electron cyclotron/upper hybrid resonant pre-ionization in the isx-b tokamak

  R M Gilgenbach;R F Lucey;K E Hackett;K E Burrell

  100
  Citations

• Cathode priming of a relativistic magnetron

  M. C. Jones;V. B. Neculaes;Y. Y. Lau;R. M. Gilgenbach

  88
  Citations

• Anisotropy and feedthrough in magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor instability.

  Y. Y. Lau;J. C. Zier;I. M. Rittersdorf;M. R. Weis

  87
  Citations

• Photoacoustic and photothermal beam deflection as a probe of laser ablation of materials

  Jeffrey A. Sell;David M. Heffelfinger;Peter L. G. Ventzek;Ronald M. Gilgenbach

  82
  Citations

• A Primer on Pulsed Power and Linear Transformer Drivers for High Energy Density Physics Applications

  R. D. McBride;W. A. Stygar;M. E. Cuneo;D. B. Sinars

  82
  Citations

• Fast, sensitive laser deflection system suitable for transient plasma analysis

  C. L. Enloe;Ronald M. Gilgenbach;J. S. Meachum

  80
  Citations

• Surface instability of multipulse laser ablation on a metallic target

  L. K. Ang;Y. Y. Lau;R. M. Gilgenbach;H. L. Spindler

  79
  Citations

• Multipactor susceptibility on a dielectric with a bias dc electric field and a background gas

  Peng Zhang;Y. Y. Lau;Matthew Franzi;R. M. Gilgenbach

  77
  Citations

• Gyrotron‐backward‐wave‐oscillator experiments utilizing a high current, high voltage, microsecond electron accelerator

  Thomas A. Spencer;Ronald M. Gilgenbach;Jin J. Choi

  76
  Citations

• Low-noise microwave magnetrons by azimuthally varying axial magnetic field

  V. B. Neculaes;R. M. Gilgenbach;Y. Y. Lau

  76
  Citations

• Schlieren measurements of the hydrodynamics of excimer laser ablation of polymers in atmospheric pressure gas

  Peter L. G. Ventzek;Ronald M. Gilgenbach;Jeffrey A. Sell;David M. Heffelfinger

  75
  Citations

• Multipactor discharge on a dielectric

  Y.Y. Lau;R.A. Kishek;L.K. Ang;R.M. Gilgenbach

  4
  Citations

• Electric field and electron orbits near a triple point

  David M. French;Nicholas M. Jordan;Y.Y. Lau;R.M. Gilgenbach

  1
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