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Charged Particle-Beam Acceleration and Lasers: Contextualizing Technologies that Shaped Electronic Warfare

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SiGe-based Re-engineering of Electronic Warfare Subsystems

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In 1931, Nikola Tesla, famous inventor and the father of alternating current (AC), publicized at a media conference that he was on the brink of discovering and presenting a totally new source of energy.

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Notes

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    1000 angstroms (1000 Å) = 100 nanometres (100 nm).

  2. 2.

    1 Joule (1 J) = 6.242 × 10+18 electron-volts (6.242 × 10+18 eV).

  3. 3.

    Photo-physical processes are defined as processes where thermal and non-thermal mechanisms contribute to the overall processing rate (Bäuerle 2013).

  4. 4.

    Astigmatism in an optical system is when the rays propagating in two perpendicular planes have different focus points.

  5. 5.

    A periodic structure of dipole magnets forcing electrons to undergo oscillations and resulting in radiated energy.

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Lambrechts, W., Sinha, S. (2017). Charged Particle-Beam Acceleration and Lasers: Contextualizing Technologies that Shaped Electronic Warfare. In: SiGe-based Re-engineering of Electronic Warfare Subsystems. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47403-8_2

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