Investigation of multipactor breakdown in communication satellite microwave co-axial systems |
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Authors: | S K Nagesh D Revannasiddiah S V K Shastry |
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Institution: | (1) Electrical Integration Division, ISRO Satellite Centre, Airport Road, 560 017 Bangalore, India;(2) Department of Physics, University of Mysore, Manasagangothri, 570 006 Mysore, India |
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Abstract: | Multipactor breakdown or multipactor discharge is a form of high frequency discharge that may occur in microwave components
operating at very low pressures. Some RF components of multi-channel communication satellites have co-axial geometry and handle
high RF power under near-vacuum conditions. The breakdown occurs due to secondary electron resonance, wherein electrons move
back and forth in synchronism with the RF voltage across the gap between the inner and outer conductors of the co-axial structure.
If the yield of secondary electrons from the walls of the co-axial structure is greater than unity, then the electron density
increases with time and eventually leads to the breakdown. In this paper, the current due to the oscillating electrons in
the co-axial geometry has been treated as a radially oriented Hertzian dipole. The electric field, due to this dipole, at
any point in the coaxial structure, may then be determined by employing the dyadic Green’s function technique. This field
has been compared with the field that would exist in the absence of multipactor. |
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Keywords: | Secondary electron resonance multipactor RF discharge |
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