This book covers all areas of high-power electromagnetics (HPEM), which includes nuclear electromagnetic pulse, intention EMI (IEMI) and other transient EM environments including lightning, power system transients and medical applications.
We live in a modern world supported by large, complex networks, with examples ranging from financial markets to communication, transportation, and security systems. As sensitive electronics become increasingly integrated into every aspect of these infrastructures, the risk posed by high-power electromagnetic (HPEM) threats is growing. This book describes new advancements in HPEM sources, electromagnetic compatibility, and strategies for protecting against intentional EM interference. It also provides insights into the detection, mitigation, and resilience-building techniques necessary to safeguard these essential networks against emerging electromagnetic threats.
This book is an edited selection of invited papers that have been updated and expanded from the 2022 GlobalEM Conference. It offers an in-depth overview of the state of the art in high-power electromagnetics, including high-power microwave and ultrawideband sources, intentional electromagnetic interference, electromagnetic compatibility, and detection methods for IEMI threats.
The book will help readers working in high-power electromagnetics and related fields to:
- Understand the capabilities of modern HPEM sources;
- Understand the threats represented by HPEM on modern critical infrastructures, systems, and equipment;
- Identify the coupling mechanisms of different HPEM sources in different scenarios;
- Identify the efficacy of shielding, filtering, hardening and other protection mechanisms.
- Chapter 1: Recent Advances in High-Power Electromagnetics
- Chapter 2: Semi-analytical gray-box modelling of antennas in the time domain and application to impulse radiating antennas
- Chapter 3: A demonstrator for Remote Induction of Disturbance for Access Denial in L-Band (RIDAD)
- Chapter 4: Directed Energy Center at the University of New Mexico (DEC@UNM)
- Chapter 5: Compact and Efficient Mode Converter for HPEM Applications in L Band
- Chapter 6: Design and Characterization of the Tapered Impedance Half Impulse Radiating Antenna, TI-HIRA
- Chapter 7: Cathode Edge Effect and Divergence of Emitted Electron Beams in Vircators
- Chapter 8: Use of C-UAS System and Its EM Effect Analysis
- Chapter 9: Real-time Shielding Compromise and Detection
- Chapter 10: Financial Comparative Analysis of Substation HPEM Mitigation Designs
- Chapter 11: Three-dimensional FDTD-based lightning transient analysis of secondary circuits with shielded control cables over grounding structures in a substation
- Chapter 12: An Introduction to a Resilience-based Approach to Transient High Power Electromagnetic Disturbance Mitigation
- Chapter 13: Susceptibility of switch-mode power supplies due to conducted pulse from HEMP
- Chapter 14: Electromagnetic security: threat models and exploitation scenarios exploiting susceptibility to HPEM
- Chapter 15: Development of a 1D and 2D Slotted Waveguide Antenna Arrays in S-Band for Multi-Megawatt Applications
Felix Vega is the chief researcher at the Directed Energy Research Center (DERC); a Center affiliated with the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He oversees the applied research and development programs on high-power electromagnetics, EMC, high Energy lasers, and sensing systems. He is secretary of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.
Nicolas Mora is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia. In 2018, he received the HPEM Fellow award from the Summa Foundation, and in 2019, the Motohisa Kanda Most Cited IEEE Transactions in EMC Paper Award. Since 2022, he has been associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. In 2023, he joined the Board of Directors of the IEEE EMC Society as a representative of R9.
Edl Schamiloglu is a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of New Mexico, USA. He is also director of the Directed Energy Center at the University of New Mexico (DEC@UNM). He has co-authored over 500 refereed journal and conference papers, and nine patents. His publications have been cited over 10,000 times. Professor Schamiloglu is a fellow of the IEEE, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and an EMP fellow (sponsored by the Summa Foundation).
Chaouki Kasmi is the chief innovation officer at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), Abu Dhabi, UAE. Dr. Kasmi has co-authored more than 200 scientific papers. He also is an associate electromagnetics scientist and researcher at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Helmut Schmidt University. He serves as a vice president of the Commission E French Section and vice chair of the International Commission E of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). His scientific interests are the R&D of Directed Energy systems, Radars and Electro-optics.
