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th he 48th annual IEEE International 48 Annual IEEE International T Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) will be held July Nuclear and Space Radiation 25-29, 2011, in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the JW Marriott Resort and Spa. We Effects Conference (NSREC) continue the tradition of previous NSRE Conferences by offering an outstanding Technical Program, a one-day Short Course, a Radiation Effects Data Workshop, and a sold-out Industrial Exhibit. Engineers, scientists, and managers from around the world who are interested in radiation effects will attend. Kay Chesnut, Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems, is the Conference General Chair. A complete technical and social program is being planned to maximize opportunities for information exchange and networking in the areas of radiation effects on microelectronic and photonic devices, circuits, and systems. Supporters of the conference include the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Sandia National Laboratories, Air Force Research Laboratory, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Aeroflex, Atmel, BAE Systems, Boeing, International Rectifier, Intersil, Honeywell, Northrop Grumman and Southwest Research Institute. Additional information on the conference is available on the Web at http://www.nsrec.com. TECHNICAL PROGRAM The Technical Program Chair, Robert Reed, Vanderbilt University, and his committee have assembled an outstanding set of contributed papers that are arranged (continued on page 3) NUCLEAR & PLASMA CONFERENCES Conferences SCIENCES SOCIETY NEWS ______(USPS 000-560) is published quarterly by the Nuclear & NSREC 1 Plasma Sciences Society of the Institute of Electrical and SOCIETY GENERAL BUSINESS Electronics Engineers, Inc. Corporate Office: 3 Park Avenue, (continued from page 1) information on the exhibit, please visit 17th Floor, New York, NY 10017-2394. Printed in the USA. President’s Report______5 http://www.nsrec.com. The exhibitors are One dollar per member per year is included in the Society into ten sessions of oral and poster Secretary’s Report______6 fee for each member of the Nuclear & Plasma Sciences as follows: papers, and a Radiation Effects Data Technical Committees Society. Periodicals postage paid at New York, NY and at l additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes Workshop. The Workshop consists of 3D Plus USA Computer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Sciences______12 to Nuclear & Plasma Sciences News, IEEE, 445 Hoes Lane, papers emphasizing radiation effects data l ______Piscataway, NJ 08854. AEI Systems Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences 13 on electronic devices and systems, and NEWSLETTER EDITOR: l Particle Accelerator Science and Technology______14 descriptions of new simulation techniques Aeroflex Divisions Plasma Science and Applications______20 Albe Dawson Larsen Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and radiation test facilities. In addition, l FUNCTIONAL COMMITTEES AFRL/VSSE MS-17 there are three invited talks of general l GOLD Activities______25 2575 Sand Hill Road Aldec Menlo Park, CA 94025 interest to both conference attendees and Awards Committee______26 l Tel: +1 650 926 2748 their companions. ARM New NPSS Fellows______26 Fax: +1 650 926-3570 E-mail: [email protected] Steve McClure, JPL, has organized this l Kay Chestnut Society Awards______32 ASIC Advantage EDITOR EMERITUS: year’s Short Course with a theme of General Chair ARTICLES l W. Kenneth Dawson “Space Radiation Environments and Atmel ______High-Energy, Switched Oscillator Terahertz Antennas 40 TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall Their Effects on Devices and Systems: l Vancouver, British Columbia BAE Systems Facility for Rare Beam Isotopes______46 Back to the Basics,” which will be held Canada, V6T-2A3. l More on Lighting Up Haiti______48 Tel: +1 604 222 7455 Monday, July 25. This Short Course is Boeing OTHER NEWS Fax: +1 604 222 7307 an excellent learning opportunity for l E-mail: [email protected] C-MAC MicroTechnology ACTA Collaboration Activities______50 those who are new to the radiation effects IEEE MAGAZINES AND NEWSLETTERS: l community and need a quick introduction CORWIL Technology Corporation Contributors for June 2011 NPSS Newsletter in to the field, as well as those who want to l AdCom Officers 2011 TECHNICAL COMMITTEE CHAIRS alphabetical order: W. Kenneth Dawson, Teresa Farris, Crane Aerospace & Electronics Dan Fleetwood, Brendan Godfrey, Steve Gold, Veronique stay abreast of current issues. The Short President, Robert E. Reinovsky Stefan Ritt (CANPS) l Ferlet-Cavrois, J. V. R. Heberlein, Christoph Ilgner, Course is organized into four sessions Crocker Nuclear Laboratory, UC Davis Vice President, Janet L. Barth Dennis Youchison (Fusion) Konstyantyn Ilyenko, Thomas C. Katsouleas, Ronald l Treasurer, Ron Keyser Robert Miyaoka (NMIS) M. Keyser, Paul Kinahan, Michael P. King, Prashanth starting with a course on spacecraft- CST Conference Treasurer, Anthony Lavietes Stan Schriber (PAST) Kumar, Albe Larsen, Ray Larsen, Sri Harsha Maamraju, environment interactions. The second Secretary, Albe Larsen Brendan B. Godfrey (PSAC) l Robert Miyaoka, William W. Moses, Patric Muggli, Paul session focuses on total ionizing dose EMPC ADCOM CLASS of 2014 Jane Lehr (PPST) F. Ottinger, Robert Reinovsky, Stefan Ritt, Stan Schriber, Robert Reed Dan Fleetwood (RE) Fred W. Sexton, Bruno Soares-Gonçalves, Mark Wilson, and displacement-damage effects in l Alberto Del Guerra (NMIS) Honeywell Technical Program Chair Chuck Melcher (RI) Gengsheng Zeng. CMOS and bipolar devices, while the Edward J. Lampo (RI) l Robert A. Reed (RE) FUNCTIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRS Publicity releases for forthcoming meetings, items of third session focuses on single-event International Rectifier Robert Zwaska (PAST) Jane Lehr (Awards, Fellows) interest from local chapters, committee reports, effects in digital and linear ICs. The last l AdCom Class of 2013 Bill Moses (Conferences) announcements, awards, or other materials requiring Intersil Corporation Steve Gold (Chapters, Local Activities, society publicity or relevant to NPSS should be submitted session discusses on-orbit anomalies Christian Bohm (CANPS) l Distinguished Lecturers) to the Newsletter Editor by July 10, 2011 for publication in J. L. Shepherd & Associates Gerald Cooperstein (PPST) and investigations and root cause Peter Clout (Communications) the September 2011 Newsletter. Paul Dodd (RE) determination. l Hal Flescher (Finance) CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Glenn Knoll (RI) Christoph Ilgner (GOLD) John Verboncoeur (PSAC) News articles are actively solicited from contributing INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITS l TBD (Membership) editors, particularly related to important R&D activities, Maxwell Technologies Class of 2012 Craig Woody (Nominations) significant industrial applications, early reports on technical This year’s Industrial Exhibits, organized l Pauls Dressendorfer (Publications) Steven Gold (PSAC) breakthroughs, accomplishments at the big laboratories by Mike Fitzpatrick from Northrop Mentor Graphics Jean-Luc Leray (Transnational) Ron Keyser (Standards) and similar subjects. The various Transactions, of course, Grumman, will permit one-on-one l Tom Lewellen (NMIS) Liaisons deal with formal treatment in depth of technical subjects. Micro-RDC Class of 2011 discussions between conference attendees l Richard Temkin (Coalition for Plasma Science) News articles should have an element of general interest or Microsemi Corporation David Abe (PSAC) Charles Neumeyer (Energy Policy) contribute to a general understanding of technical problems and exhibitors on the latest developments l Janet Barth (RE) Patrick LeDû (International Conferences and RT Conf.) or fields of technical interest or could be assessments of in radiation-hardened and radiation- Modular Devices Inc. Hutch (George) Neilson (Fusion) Randy Brill (IEEE-USA Medical Technologies) important ongoing technical endeavors. Steve McClure tolerant electronics, engineering services, l Stan Schriber (PAC OC) Advice on possible authors or offers of such articles are M.S. Kennedy Corporation Short Course Chair Hal Flescher, Jim Schwank (RADECS) invited by the editor. facilities, and equipment. On Tuesday l Ray Larsen (SSIT & HTC) ©2011 IEEE. Information contained in this newsletter may evening, attendees and their companions NASA/GSFC NEPP Sandra Biedron (IEEE-USA R&D Policy) be copied without permission provided that the copies are are invited to a reception that showcases Tony Lavietes (Sensors Council) not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage, Ron Keyser (IEEE Standards Board) and the title of the publication and date appear. the Industrial Exhibit. If you need more (continued on page 4) Ron Jaszczak, Randy Brill (TMI ) Allan Johnston (Women in Engineering)

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(continued from page 3) Museum, Madame Tussauds Museum, President’s Report l Caesar’s Forum, and the Venetian. National Semiconductor

l LAS VEGAS, NEVADA Naval Research Laboratory Colleagues and Friends, Bond, a recent IEEE Division Director, The term “enjoying oneself ” means and expert in the field from Pacific l hope that the first part of 2011 has Northrop Grumman Corporation something different to each person, Northwest Laboratory (PNL) who joined I brought you success in your professional l but Las Vegas seems to fit the bill us for the discussion. You will hear more Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. endeavors and finds you well. Writing in categories that would surprise on this topic in the future l Robust Chip you. Because it is considered the to you in mid-April, just about a month after the devastating earthquake and the In related circumstances, but in a very l “Entertainment Capital of the World,” Rochester Electronics most people naturally associate this subsequent tsunami that brought such different part of the technological l damage and destruction to northern spectrum, the NPSS has played an Sandia National Laboratories with headliner shows, superb comedy, Japan, I know you join me in sending important role in launching, through l Broadway-style theater, excellent music, Mike Fitzpatrick SEMICOA expressions of sympathy to our friends financial sponsorship, and through the Bob Reinovsky Industrial Exhibits Chair gambling, themed attractions, nightclubs IEEE NPSS President l and colleagues in Japan for the terrible vision and dedicated leadership of Ray Silvaco International and restaurants. But this is also a city damage and tragic loss of life that they Larsen, a project in cooperation with l of off-beat museums, dramatic scenery, SpaceMicro excellent hiking and biking, sensational have endured. We reach out to our fellow the IEEE Humanitarian Technology l spas and challenging golf… there is so engineering professionals in Japan, and Challenge to develop and implement a STMicroelectronics to the whole of the Japanese people, in concept for simple, kilowatt-level, low- l much more to Vegas than the Strip. SVAD/WSTC You’ll have the opportunity to experience the hope that we can be of some help maintenance solar-powered electrification l  and assistance in the months and years technology for remote, isolated, and Texas A&M University – it all at the 2011 IEEE NSREC in Las Vegas, Nevada! of rebuilding that lie ahead. rural areas and populations. The concept Cyclotron Institute employs solar photovoltaics to charge As our name states, the Nuclear and l INVITED SPEAKERS batteries distributed to users for in-home Texas Instruments Plasma Sciences Society has a special NSREC has three exciting speakers. lighting, communication and other low- l interest in applying nuclear technology TRAD power applications. The first phase of this First, on Wednesday, there is “A Short for the benefit of human society around l pilot project has built and tested about a Ultra Communications History of Las Vegas, from Artesian the world, and we are particularly Wells to Atomic Weapons,” by Mark half-dozen working prototype systems. Dale McMorrow l concerned for our colleagues at the Vanderbilt University/ISDE You can see a feature article about the Local Arrangements Chair Hall-Patton, Clark County Museum Fukushima site who are laboring so l program in the April issue of IEEE VPT System. Thursday will feature “A Brief valiantly to control the situation there History of the Nevada Test Site,” by Spectrum. By this time you read this, the l and to moderate the near- and long-term Xilinx first set of systems will be deployed in Dr. William A. Seidler, II, The Boeing impact of events at that site on Japan Haiti where they will, hopefully, improve Perfect tense SOCIAL EVENTS Company, and Friday will lead off with and on the rest of the world. In the past, the lives of people in another nation “The James Webb Space Telescope: our Society has been active in the area Social events have been planned to give recovering from unspeakable damage Future: that period of time in Mission Overview and Status,” by Matt of nuclear instrumentation and control conference attendees and their guests from earthquake disasters. These are some Greenhouse, JPL. systems for large experimental facilities which our affairs prosper, our many opportunities to discuss business of the ways in which our profession, in ADDITIONAL INFORMATION in general, including some activity in friends are true, and our happiness and to become better acquainted. Local different ways and on different scales, nuclear reactor instrumentation and is assured. Arrangements Chair, Dale McMorrow, For the latest NSREC information can and is impacting the lives of people controls as well. For more than a decade Naval Research Laboratory, has planned (technical program, conference and around the world. Ambrose Bierce an entertaining and memorable social social registration forms, hotel and travel that activity related to nuclear power has program. The main conference social information, etc.) please visit our web site been dormant. But in the last two years, In other areas of the IEEE, at the on Wednesday night will be “A Night at http://www.nsrec.com. we have been exploring what role our February Meeting Series in Miami, in Buenos Aires Dinner and Show” with Society should play in the reemerging, Florida, the Technical Activities Board Kay Chesnut, the General Chair, can Quintango, a five-time Whammy award- and expanding, nuclear power industry (TAB) devoted a significant amount of be reached at (310) 416-3705; E-mail: winning Tango orchestra, playing for around the world. The events in Japan its time and energy to discussion of the [email protected]. two exquisite world-class Tango dancers. notwithstanding, the NPSS AdCom, in its interface between Technical Activities Additional excursions during the week Teresa Farris, the Publicity Chair, Aeroflex, March meeting and retreat in New York and Member and Geographical Activities include tours of the Atomic Testing can be reached at (719) 594-8035; E-mail: devoted substantial time to discussion of (MGA). MGA is the main interface with [email protected] opportunities related to nuclear power, the IEEE for our approximately 333 and we are especially appreciative of the help and support provided by Leonard (continued on page 6)

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(continued from page 5) including one society membership at Toil not in vain no additional cost with your IEEE Secretary’s Report sections and 2000 local chapters (some membership appearing in time for 2013 500 of which are outside the U.S.) — It seems to be a necessary condition renewals. In addition look for some he IEEE NPSS AdCom met and involvement necessary to ensure numbers that have grown by 60% since of human science, that we should expanded opportunities for members to T preceding PAC2011 at the Marriott excellence. There is ongoing discussion the year 2000. TAB and MGA continue learn many useless things, in order obtain limited, but no-cost, downloads Marquis in New York City on March about how to remedy this problem. to work to support sections and chapters th th from the timely and important articles 25 and 26 for a retreat day dedicated to become acquainted with those as ways to develop leadership, making IEEE has closed its Grant Administration in IEEE Technology News as an additional to future planning and the following day which are of service. technical activities available to member Program because of its high cost. Grants member benefit. for our first AdCom meeting of 2011 from government agencies to support Samuel Bailey (in 1821) where they live and work and bringing led by Bob Reinovsky, our new president. conferences should be sought through visibility for parent Societies. Plans are Wishing you a most successful second We welcomed new elected AdCom university ties or possibly through other being finalized for the 2011 Section half of 2011. members Ed Lampo, Robert Reed and Congress in August. professional societies. Bob Reinovsky, the IEEE NPSS President, Bob Zwaska as well as new TC chairs Albe Larsen Look for some upcoming changes in the can be reached at Los Alamos National Brendan Godfrey, Plasma Science and Peter Clout, our Division IV director, NPSS Secretary and Newsletter Editor options available for IEEE and Society Laboratory, PAT Program Office MS T087, Applications and Jane Lehr, Pulsed noted that IEEE has budgeted significant membership aimed at further increasing Los Alamos, NM 87544; Phone: +1 505- Power Science and Technology. Richard initiative money for Smart Grid the value of membership. While details 667-8214; Fax: +1 505-665-2227; Temkin of the MIT Plasma Science development, for humanitarian efforts, are still emerging, you can expect to see E-mail: [email protected]. and Fusion Center is our new Coalition mainly though E4C, a new IEEE/ an option of “Basic” society membership, for Plasma Science liaison. Leonard ASME joint program, for Computer Bond of PNL and Jayne Cerone, IEEE Society Competitiveness and nine other Director, Volunteer Relations, were our initiatives. The directors approved a list of guests for both the retreat and our regular appointments, including those of society Summary of TAB News AdCom meeting. Vita Feuerstein, IEEE presidents. The Board did not pass a Conference Contracts Manager, joined proposed reorganization in 2010. Smaller us on Saturday. The retreat focused on changes are expected over the next years. TAB Structure Ad Hoc l Minimum number of nominee l financial issues, our role in relation to Strategic planning is a regular subject of Motion to add multisociety technical requirements 150% rule, Exception Sensors Council, conferences and new discussion with no direction and no teeth. communities adopted possible one election at a time technical communities, and our role in the Mike Lightner has undertaken a review l Member benefits 2010 Results, ops positive, reserves reemergence of interest in nuclear power. of trends in electrical and computer l engineering education for IEEE, IEEE Technology News IEEE-TN strong At our regular AdCom meeting l Education and Libraries. Xplore is under l Treasurer Ron Keyser noted that our Membership benefits surveys report Need to use (financial) resources to continual development and upgrade. invest in our FUTURE financial position remains sound. Both that members want free downloads Technical Committees l TNS and TPS met page count budgets l 2010 $17-18M positive out of $191M New proposal: 2 free downloads and therefore received bonuses. Our The Computer Applications in Nuclear gross Planned budget surplus of $0.5 per week from the week’s 20 articles conferences and publications generate and Plasma Sciences TC chair, Stefan l featured in IEEE-TN Reserves to $260M total across IEEE approximately equal income. Ron also Ritt, announced the release of the 2010 set guidelines for student grants and l Real Time Conference DVD. They Miss-application Single article purchase is $30— Conferences about $600K positive, IEL reminded us of Phelps Grant guidelines have appointed their first Distinguished making it attractive to join rather $6M positive and limits. Lecturer, Martin Purtscke of BNL. The trouble with her is that she than to buy a few articles l Authorize to use 50% of prior year Bob Reinovsky reported on the February The 2012 conference will be held at l lacks the power of conversation Issue is to nominate articles to surplus +3% of Reserves TAB series. See his summary above. the Shattuck Hotel in Berkeley, CA with Sergio Zimmermann as General but not the power of speech. IEEE-TN “… this article is l There was also considerable discussion of Spend critically important because….” “rogue” virtual conferences organized to Chair. RT2014 will be held near Kyoto. George Bernard Shaw l l Arrangements are being initiated. Motion to permit limited free Realistic projections should be a goal of get material, often not of the best quality, downloads from IEEE-TN approved budgeting process. into Xplore. Part of this results from Dennis Youchison, Fusion Technology the increase in technically cosponsored Nominations and chair, reports that they are updating their conferences (TCS) where the guidelines Appointments Committee web site. The plans for SOFE 2011, held l for technically cosponsoring a conference Need volunteers especially for TAB aren’t met with the degree of scrutiny (continued on page 8) committees

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(continued from page 7) scheduled the week following our The 2009 Pulsed Power conference in place before the TCS can use IEEE meeting. PAC11 will have a different books are in audit. At PP2011, to be name or logo or any other promotion in conjunction with ICOPS, are well format than previous PACs, with tutorials held at McCormick Place, Chicago, indicating an IEEE affiliation. There under way with the information mailed in the morning. The attendance will be they expect 600 or more attendees. The is a $500 fee to register the conference and abstracts already submitted. The principally from North America, based social program includes a banquet at in the IEEE Conferences Data Base. Tell me committee holds regular teleconferences on current registration. This was expected the Field Museum as well as a Lake Conferences should report back on the to conduct business. with the IPAC series, the second of Michigan cruise. The PP conference will conference results and should provide [Gossip is] hearing something you Robert Miyaoka, chair of the Nuclear which will be held in September in San be in San Francisco in 2013 as a PPST Bill with post-conference statistics like about someone you don’t. Medical and Imaging TC reported that Sebastian, Spain. PAC11 has 82 exhibits conference combined with ICOPS. The ([email protected]). and 1000 paper contributions. There will 2015 conference will be chaired by Mark they have completed elections for their We also heard from Vita Feuerstein, Earl Wilson be a Women in Engineering reception; Crawford and the center will be Austin, steering committee. New members are Manager of IEEE Conference the number of student grants is high, TX. The Pulsed Power TC is technically Adam Alessio, Freek Beekman, Jennifer Contracting, that extra care has to be there is a Teachers’ Day scheduled, and cosponsoring the 2013 Electromagnetic Huber, Jinhun Joung and Andrew taken with conference contracts, especially for at least part of the meeting there Launch Conference to be held in Beijing Reader. Alberto Del Guerra is the with overseas partners where IEEE still are arrangements for child care—a true and the Power Modulators Conference newly elected AdCom member from remains the financially responsible entity. innovation. sponsored by the IEEE Dielectrics this community. Registration fees and other money coming Society. The Pulsed Power Symposium PAC 2010 was a good meeting, held in in to a conference should be deposited Chuck Melcher, chair of the Radiation on Power Electronics is looking for Vancouver, but lost money because of directly into an IEEE Concentration Instrumentation TC, reported problems affiliation. It was an IEE (UK) conference, hotel contract issues. PAC2012 will be the Banking account. Contracts must be in with the mailing of the 2010 NSS/MIC and then ITE, but now has no home. first North American IPAC and will be place, reviewed and signed off by IEEE abstract booklet due to the placement of The Pulsed Power TC is talking with held in New Orleans with Victor Suller for amounts over $25k before conference the mailing labels. In Knoxville they had them about our possible help. the best poster space in memory, with of LSU as General Chair. PAC and IPAC advances can be issued. conferences are planning as far out as The 2011 Radiation Effects Conference Wi-Fi in the poster area. They planned Jane Lehr, who chairs both the Awards 2018 for venues. is all set for Las Vegas. See the cover for 1600 at the combined meeting but Committee and the Fellows Evaluation article. The 2012 conference will be registration was 2000. Short courses Brendan Godfrey, the new chair of the Committee, reported that there are at the Intercontinental in Miami, the were very well attended, with overflow Plasma Science and Applications TC, again excellent candidates for the Curie 2013 50th Anniversary conference at the for some. The CIP survey showed that noted that the books for ICOPS 2009 and Field Award. The results for the 2012 Hyatt Embarcadero in San Francisco, the scientific quality of the conferences 2010 are closed and have been filed for award will be announced in July. Peter Makes us even and the 2014 conference will be in was high and the venue was good. audit. The 2011 ICOPS, in Chicago, has Clout will be chair of the Curie Award France, with the 2014 RADECS People would return here. The next received 541 abstracts. Ned Birdsall will Committee for the next two years. cancelled. The 2011 conference will Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes NSS/MIC will be in Valencia from the be presented the first Curie Field Award There is also a new nomination form, rd th feature a GOLD breakfast event. on Thee 23 to 29 October. at this meeting. The 2012 meeting will be so check it out on the IEEE Technical held in Scotland, and plans are beginning Field Awards web site. Jane announced The Radiation Instrumentation TC Radiation Effects, along with others, And I’ll forgive Thy great big one to hold the 2015 meeting in Turkey, with our 2011 Society Awards. See the is technically cosponsoring the 2011 is having a problem with Thompson- on me. the site still to be decided. AWARDS section below. The Fellow Sigh... ANIMMA conference in Ghent, Belgium Reuters characterizing the issues of TNS Candidates Committee has received the Robert Frost and the SORMA2012 Conference in Jane Lehr, the new chair of the Pulsed containing papers originally presented 2011 applications. The committee has Women and cats do as they please, the western U.S.. They will also be a Power TC reported the addition of three at NSREC as “Conference Proceedings,” several new members and Jane is planning technical cosponsor of the 2012 Third international members to the PPST whereas they are fully reviewed and and men and dogs should relax and a training session especially after changes International Symposium on Nuclear committee. They are planning a survey edited technical papers. This problem get used to the idea. in software, the questionnaire and in Plant Life, an IAEA conference for at the June 2011 meeting in Chicago to is being handled by IEEE Publications. application processing procedures. In Robert A. Heinlein which the U.S. is the host country. assess the interest in hosting a non-North Many other societies within IEEE are 2010 eight of 18 NPSS candidates were Argonne National Laboratory will American Pulsed Power conference. The being affected. elevated to Fellow (Class of 2011). See organize the conference. AdCom guest, conference attendance is now over 50% Functional Committees their biographies and citations (p. 26). Leonard Bond, and Richard Kouzes non-North American. They would form The Conference Committee, chaired of AdCom are both heavily involved. an organization such as the NSS/MIC by Bill Moses, who also chairs the IEEE We are restructuring the Membership Conference Information and Promotion Committee’s role and responsibilities. Stan Schriber, Chair of the Particle Conferences Committee, reminds us of group (CIP) to work on such a meeting. There will be more about this in Accelerator Science and Technology the procedures for technically cosponsored future Newsletters. TC, noted that all was ready for PAC11 conferences. An MOU between the conference and IEEE must be signed and (continued on page 10)

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(continued from page 9) 2013 brochure and asking that everyone were able to build six, rather than three, The Women in Engineering (WIE) start to think of photos for it now. trailers for the Phase I pilot program in liaison, Allan Johnston, notes that while The Chapters Committee, chaired by He likes lab photos showing what we Haiti. Because of the need to commit WIE reports to the IEEE Board of Steve Gold, who is also the Distinguished do and conference photos. These all need funds they are short of money to ship the Directors, it operates functionally under Lecturers liaison, reported three requests to be very high resolution. Send any gems trailers and send the training team, but the Educational Activities Board and it for Chapter funds thus far. Chapters to Peter at [email protected]. have hopes of money from region 9 and is anticipated that it will be moved to Role reversal are encouraged to help in identifying from the E4C organization. The schedule this entity this year. NPSS provides some The Germanium 325 standard, says members eligible to become senior has slipped because of unforeseen funding to help sponsor WIE events at its Ron Keyser, Standards Committee Chair, ...the irony is that the generation members and in having them elevated. problems that have now been resolved. own conferences. Steve also announced that both CANPS is being reformatted yet again! that experimented with drugs By the time you receive this report, all AdCom Actions and PSAC have appointed new Christoph Ilgner, Chair of the GOLD Make love, not war is now a generation the drug six trailers should have been deployed in l  Distinguished Lecturers. There is a new It was moved and passed that the revised companies are experimenting with. Committee, says about 15% of our Haiti and work begun on the nine trailers One would be in less danger NPSS Distinguished Lecturer brochure membership falls into this category, with for the Phase II pilot program. Bylaws for the NPSS Plasma Science Patricia Wilke available that will be distributed at the majority being women. NSS/MIC and Applications Committee (PSAC) From the wiles of a stranger conferences or is available on request. will host another GOLD event in 2011 Sandra Biedron, liaison to the IEEE- be approved as approved by the PSAC If one’s kin and kith USA R&D Policy Committee, reports Harold Flescher, Chair of the Finance and invitations will be handled better. ExCom on February 2, 2011. that there will be a Congressional Visits Were more fun to be with Committee discussed Concentration Christoph is also considering a survey l  Day where people are encouraged to see It was moved that NPSS provide up to Ogden Nash Banking further as well as a web-based of GOLD members. their senators and representatives and $5000 to support the WIE reception at credit system. There are questions of The Transnational Committee, chaired encourage support of the U.S.’s R&D ICOPS/SOFE 2011. The motion failed. what sort of support our European and by Jean-Luc Leray, has added a member efforts. The committee also has several l  Asian TAB offices might offer. It was moved, seconded and passed from Brazil and has had an inquiry about white papers in production. that NPSS discontinue its membership The Nominations Committee, chaired forming a Beijing Chapter where there Rick Temkin, our new Coalition for in the Sensors Council based on little by Past President Craig Woody, will are 55 identified members. Zhen-An Plasma Science liaison, reported that involvement by NPSS members. have sent out the call for Nominations Liu of IHEP is spearheading this. The the group was formed to educate the l  for AdCom seats. New members will Committee is also working on an on-line It was moved and passed that the annual public about plasmas. They host many be elected from the Plasma Science and membership data base that would have expenditure from the Jordanov Radiation educational events including those on Applications, Fusion, Radiation Effects NPSS access only. Instrumentation Travel Grant Fund be Capitol Hill, programs for K-12 teachers, and Pulsed Power communities. Ballots increased to a maximum of $7200. Patrick LeDû, the Transnational for community education and especially in for these elections should go out in late l  conferences liaison, noted the increase in high schools. Lee Berry of ORNL is the It was moved and passed that the July. Watch for them and vote. TCS as well as in our own conferences CPS chair and their web site has a lot of NPSS technically cosponsor the The Publications Committee, headed meeting outside North America. Asia is material that can be downloaded. Third International Symposium on by Paul Dressendorfer, also Editor-in- the new frontier and is about where we Nuclear Plant Life Management for Jim Schwank, our RADECS co- Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Nuclear were in 2000 with regard to European Long Term Operation to be held in Forget history?? liaison just returned from a RADECS Science (TNS), reported that all journal conferences. Salt Lake City in May 2012. This is coordinating meeting in Bordeaux. articles are entering a “hybrid” open an IAEA conference hosted by the You can never plan the future Leonard Bond, our guest from PNL, The 2011 RADECS will be held in access process. For a fee of $3000 journal U.S. government. by the past. discussed possibilities for Nuclear Power Seville and they expect a large attendance. papers can be given open access status l  and Alternative Energy activities. There NSREC will have a table there. A site It was moved and denied that the NPSS Edmund Burke and can be downloaded with no charge. are conferences with no professional has not yet been selected for 2012, but Awards Committee be allowed to grant Now a subscription or an individual paper society home that work in the nuclear Bordeaux seems a likely candidate. The two Early Achievement Awards in 2011 download charge is required. The process power arena. These might be a good place 2013 conference will be held in Oxford, pending TABARC approval. is still undergoing review and revision but l  to initiate activities to grow the NPSS UK. There is a five-year RADECS MOU will be available soon. Authors will no It was moved and seconded that rates nuclear power component. with IEEE for technical cosponsorship. longer be allowed to post the final edited for NPSS membership remain the same Liaison Reports In 2011 RADECS is listed in the IEEE published versions on their own web sites. as those of 2011 for 2012, but that Conference Data Base. Papers from Ray Larsen, liaison to the Society for journal rates be increased. The motion Our own publications are doing well at RADECS are submitted to TNS and Social Implications of Technology and the carried. However, following the AdCom meeting their timeliness requirements, accepted papers appear in Xplore. The IEEE Community Solutions Initiative meeting, by e-mail vote the journal rate and have good editors at all levels. process for paper submittal and review is that grew out of the IEEE Humanitarian being regularized. 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(continued from page 11) $20,000 toward the construction of two of the nine additional units for the CSI Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences increases were rescinded and the 2011 Haiti project in 2011. rates shall prevail in 2012. reetings! Time keeps marching on Council. The Edward J. Hoffman l  It was moved, seconded and passed Albe Larsen, NPSS Secretary and Newsletter G and before you know it the 2011 Medical Imaging Scientist Award is given that 1) NPSS would provide $20,000 Editor, can be reached at SLAC National IEEE MIC meeting with be upon us. annually to an individual in recognition to cover the outstanding costs of Accelerator Laboratory, MS17, 2575 Sand This promises to be a great meeting of outstanding contributions to the field shipping and deploying the first six Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025; Phone with many of us looking forward to of medical imaging science. The Bruce solar generator units in Haiti (Pilot 1 +1 650 926-2748; Fax: +1 650 926-3570; visiting Valencia. Valencia is Spain’s Hasegawa Young Investigator Medical Program), and 2) NPSS would grant E-mail: [email protected]. third largest city, situated on the eastern Imaging Science Award is also given Mediterranean coast, with many cultural annually to an individual in recognition and recreational attractions. The meeting of significant and/or innovation technical TECHNICAL COMMITTEES will be held in the Valencia Conference contributions made early in their career. Robert Miyaoka Center with the Sorollo and Melia as the To be eligible for the Hasegawa award NMIS Technical Committee Chair main conference hotels. David Townsend the individual must have been awarded is the General Chair, Alberto Del Guerra their highest degree no more than six Computer Applications in will serve as MIC Chair and Juan José years prior to the date of nomination. If Vaquero will serve as MIC Deputy you know of an individual you believe is Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Chair. As you read this, the organizing deserving of either of these awards please committee will be finalizing the program. take the time to nominate him/her. The hile the proceedings for the past to highlight their posters in a three- Joint NSS/MIC sessions will be held on deadline for nominations for these awards th W Real Time Conference 2010 in minute oral presentation. Tuesday, October 25, and the main MIC is July 15 . Instructions and nomination Lisbon, Portugal, have just been mailed, program will extend from Wednesday forms are available on the web site, http:// the preparations for RT12 are now fully In 2014, the Real Time conference through Saturday. Two plenary sessions ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/nmisc/MICAwards. underway. The conference will take will go to Japan, probably to the Kyoto are planned with three invited speakers: html. Nominations should be sent to place from June 9th to 15th, 2012, in the region. Although this had been decided Dr. Cristopher Bert (GSI, Germany), Anna Celler, Chair of the IEEE NMISC Shattuck Hotel in downtown Berkeley, before the earthquake in Japan, the Prof. Anders Brahme (Karolinska Awards/Fellows Subcommittee. committee now feels even more strongly University, Sweden), and Prof. Willi Stefan Ritt California. The local chair is Sergio In addition to nominating individuals that all possible support should be Kalender (Erlangen University, Germany). CANPS Chair Zimmermann (LBNL); the program for awards, we also need five new given to the country. RT14 will give Dr. Bert will speak on “New Frontiers chair is Réjean Fontaine (University volunteers each year to serve as visitors the possibility to visit a very in Radiobiology for Particle Therapy.” of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada). committee members for the NMISC. nice region of Japan and give support Prof. Brahme will speak on “Imaging Short courses are again planned to Each member serves a three-year to our Japanese colleagues. and Radiotherapy: the best of the two cover some hot topics such as graphics term. Self-nomination is accepted and worlds.” Prof. Kalender will speak on “Is card programming and fast waveform While CANPS has not had a encouraged. If you are interested in There Still Room for Research in CT?” In digitizing. Excursions to San Francisco distinguished lecturer in the past, we are serving on the NMISC please contact Those were the days addition to these plenary speakers, Luis and possibly to Napa Valley will be proud to announce that Martin Purschke George Kontaxakis, g.kontaxakis@ieee. Fernandez-Galiano (Architect) will speak offered. The downtown location was (BNL, New York) now offers two lectures. org, NMISC Secretary and Chair of on “The Laws of Biology and the Spanish I can remember when the air was chosen because of the close vicinity to One is about petabyte-scale data handling the Nominations Subcommittee. Architecture” at the MIC banquet. Along clean and sex was dirty. public transportation, and because there in modern physics experiments, the with oral and poster sessions, we will In other news, the IEEE is in the process are many different hotels of all categories other is an introduction to graphics card George Burns once again have MIC refresher courses of establishing a Life Sciences Portal. The nearby. The CANPS committee meets programming using the CUDA standard. regularly and will finalize details of the during the lunch hour. Finally, there overall objective of the initiative is to start program and the short courses and will Stefan Ritt, chair of the Computer are also plans for two MIC workshops. the process of making IEEE a major and find nominees for our CANPS award Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Science Please plan on attending and make your recognized player in the Life Sciences. which will be given during the conference. Technical Committee, can be reached at the reservations early. Fourteen IEEE Societies and four IEEE The conference will have a vendor exhibit, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Councils are already active in the Life Other items of interest that require Sciences. As one of the societies with and our traditional “mini-oral” session, Switzerland. Phone +41 56 310 3728; immediate attention are nominations giving poster presenters the opportunity E-mail: [email protected] significant interest in the life sciences, for this year’s NMISC awards and especially through NMISC, we are taking nominations for membership for the Nuclear and Medical Imaging Sciences (continued on page 14)

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(continued from page 13) Deputy Chair. The meeting will be held at Other members of the committee are PAC’11 the Coex Convention Center within the PAC’11 chair Thomas Roser (BNL), Conference Details an active role in this initiative. Current Coex Mall. This site will provide us with IPAC’12 chair Vic Suller (LSU), PAC’13 Dates: March 28-April 1, 2011 NMISC involvement is through Alberto plenty of space to host the meeting as well chair Steve Gourlay (LBNL), IPAC’15 Del Guerra who is a member of the Life Location: New York Marriott Marquis as offering many tourism opportunities. chair Andrew Hutton ( JLab), PAC’16 Sciences New Initiative Project Team and Hotel, New York, NY The 2013 organizing committee is chair Marion White (ANL) and IPAC’18 Georges El Fakhri who is a member of actively working and plans are progressing chair Lia Merminga (TRIUMF). Website: www.bnl.gov/pac11 All work and no the Life Sciences Portal Editorial Board. No new ideas? well. CONFERENCES play makes... This in an exciting new initiative within Host: Brookhaven National Laboratory IEEE and it will be interesting to see In 2014, the IEEE NSS/MIC meeting There has been a significant change to Conference Chair: Thomas Roser A conservative is someone who What you do in your working hours where it leads. will be held in Seattle, Washington. Tony the Particle Accelerator Conferences believes nothing should be done Lavietes is the General Chair for the Conference Committees determines what you have. upcoming MIC meetings (PACs) held in North America which for the first time. meeting. The meeting will be held in the are jointly sponsored by IEEE NPSS Local Organizing Committee Chair: What you do in your play hours In 2012, the IEEE NSS/MIC meeting Washington State Convention Center and APS-DPB, in that they will no longer Michael Sivertz Anon. determines what you are. will be held in Anaheim, California. Tom located in downtown Seattle. There will be held every odd year, alternating with Scientific Program Committee Chair: Lewellen is the General Chair, Vesna be a nice price range of hotels (e.g., $92 to George Eastman the EPAC conferences held in Europe Vladimir Litvinenko Sossi will serve as MIC Chair and Alex $185 per night) within walking distance in even years as in the past. A new series Converse will serve as MIC Deputy of the convention center. of international particle accelerator Editor: Todd Satogata Chair. The meeting will be held at the conferences has been initiated with Plans are underway for site selection for Co-Editor: Kevin Brown Disneyland Hotel. Along with having agreements among Europe, Asia and 2015. Some members of the site selection excellent facilities to host the meeting, North America. The first international Conference Secretary: Anna Petway committee recently visited Strasbourg, the Disneyland Hotel will be undergoing conference IPAC’10 was held in Kyoto, France. In addition, we anticipate Industrial Exhibit Coordinator: a major renovation that will be complete Japan in May 2010, the second will proposals from a few other European sites Doreen Cantelmo for the 2012 meeting. The full committee be held in San Sebastian, Spain in and possibly from a city in the eastern met on-site in March 2011 and plans are September of 2011 and the third will be Treasurer: Susan Pankowski progressing well. part of the U.S. held in New Orleans, Louisiana in May Status of Conference In 2013, the IEEE NSS/MIC meeting Robert Miyaoka can be reached at University of 2012. The cycle will then continue PAC’11 was the 24th PAC, being the latest will be held in Asia for the first time. of Washington, Department of Radiology, every year in the spring, repeating the in the highly successful series of Particle Host city for the meeting will be Seoul, Box 357987, Seattle, WA, 98195-7987 order of Asia, Europe, North America, Accelerator Conferences and also the first Korea. Hee-Joung Kim is the General USA; Phone: +1 206-543-2084; Fax: +1 etc. IEEE NPSS and APS-DPB will regional North American PAC serving Chair for the meeting, Jae Sung Lee is the 206-543-8356; E-mail: rmiyaoka@u. cosponsor only the IPAC conferences accelerator scientists, engineers, and MIC Chair and Craig Levin is the MIC washington.edu. held in North America. In addition, students. The conference took place from because three years is considered to be too March 28th to April 1st, 2011 at the New long a period of time between conferences York Marriott Marquis Hotel in New Particle Accelerator Science held in North America, we will continue York City. The conference just closed and the PAC conferences as regional the next issue will provide more details And Technology News conferences midway between the North on this extremely successful conference. American IPACs except for PAC’11 Pictures from the conference are not which was planned before the IPACs were ORGANIZATION available yet, so they will be included in Good thing too! AdCom, Bob Zwaska (FNAL), is formalized. So, there will be an accelerator the next report as well. he PAST TC is structured as follows. chair of our Nominating, Education conference held in North America every You completely fail to miss the point. T As the past PAST Chair Ilan Ben-Zvi and Outreach (includes our interests in 18 months with the regional PACs held in The Scientific Program Committee (BNL) is in charge of the Fellows and Women in Science and Engineering) the fall and the IPACs held in the spring (SPC) for PAC’11 was chaired by Waldo Skillings (BC politician’s Awards subcommittee, responsible for subcommittee working with the previous – IPAC’12 spring 2012, PAC’13 fall 2013, Vladimir Litvinenko. Sessions included response to a question) nominating our PAST award candidates PAST TC elected member Sandra IPAC’15 spring 2015, PAC’16 fall 2016, topics related to Accelerator Technology, and fellows. As the former past PAST Biedron (Colorado State University), etc.. All PACs and IPACs held in North Beam Dynamics and EM Fields, Chair, Bruce Brown (FNAL) is in responsible in part for nominating America will be cosponsored by IEEE charge of our Web and Communications members who could be elected to NPSS and APS-DPB. (continued on page 16) subcommittee, responsible in part for serve on the IEEE-NPSS AdCom. our PAST TC web site. Our elected And finally, Paul Schmor (TRIUMF) is PAST TC member of the IEEE NPSS chair of our Conferences subcommittee.

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(continued from page 15) Budget is estimated for an attendance The Second North American Particle With anticipated attendance of about th of 1200. IPAC’12, the third in the new Accelerator Conference (PAC13) (the 26 1,250 the combined number of rooms Instrumentation and Controls, Light international series of conferences and in xPAC conferences in North America) blocked at the six hotels is adequate. Sources and FELs, Sources and Medium th th the 25 in xPAC conferences in North to be held September 29 to October Flat statement Energy Accelerators, and other related th For IPAC 2015 we are holding 67,549 America, is hosted by LSU to be held 4 , 2013, will be organized jointly by the topics. The program also included a sq ft for exhibits/posters, 34,437 sq ft for May 20 – 25 at the Ernest N. Morial Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Never in Canadian history has number of tutorials scheduled as the general session, plus an additional 37,732 Convention Center in New Orleans, (LBNL) and the SLAC National first talk in the morning. The program sq ft for parallel sessions and breakouts. there been a government so prone Louisiana. Contracts for the Convention Accelerator Laboratory and held in the was an outstanding success, as was the We also have reserved an additional 10 to be prone. Center and the hotels have been signed. Pasadena Convention Center. Contracts small meeting rooms at the Marriott for student poster session on Sunday and the with the Convention Center and hotels John Diefenbaker ancillary events. Teacher’s Day on Wednesday organized The scientific program committee have been signed. Government rates have by Derek Lowenstein. The Women in (SPC) will be working on details of the been secured for all conference hotels. PAC’16 Vic Suller receiving the conference bell from Engineering/Science event was well conference agenda including invited Thomas Roser. Projected attendance is 800 based on The third regional North American attended and another successful part of speakers and session arrangements. the outcome of PAC’11. The conference Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC’16) the conference. The SPC meets first in June 2011 to program will be geared toward early- will be co-hosted by the Argonne select plenary and invited talks and again 1040 participants (16% from Europe and career scientists, engineers, technologists National Laboratory together with the in February 2012 to review contributed 4% from Asia) attended the conference and students, but will retain the historic Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory orals, poster sessions arrangements and including 162 exhibitors who manned international flavor with invited speakers and Michigan State University. The the synoptic table completion. There 82 exhibits. Grants were provided to from around the world. We plan to offer proposed dates for the conference are will be three parallel sessions with poster th th 48 graduate students in addition to a number of tutorials on the day before October 9 to October 14 , 2016 with a sessions being selected to cause minimal those sponsored by specific laboratories. the conference and envision providing proposal to meet at the Sheraton Chicago interference with topics covered in the One remarkable accomplishment of this limited support to encourage attendance Hotel and Towers. Details for this oral sessions. Another feature being conference is the fact that conference of minorities and students. A contract conference are being looked into by the considered for this conference is the papers, as well as most of the slides is being negotiated with Centennial Chair for the conference, Marion White introduction of approximately 15 posters presented during oral presentations, Conferences for management of the of ANL. Projected attendance is 800 and per session which will use a large screen were available on the conference site conference and the budget is being the conference program will be geared for electronic poster display. developed. the last day of the conference. toward early career scientists, engineers, All’s fair in... IPAC’15 The traditional passing of the conference The LOC is very busy working on technologists and students. bell at the end of the PAC’11 conference arrangements for the conference and Conference Chair: Andrew Hutton, JLab IPAC’18 In politics nothing is contemptible. is shown on p. 17 with Vic Suller, interacts regularly with hotel and Convention Center staff. Program Chair: Stuart Henderson, FNAL The ninth International Particle Benjamin Disraeli IPAC’12 conference chair, on the left Accelerator Conference (IPAC’18) will LOC Chair: Fulvia Pilat, JLab receiving the bell from Thomas Roser, PAC’13 be hosted by the TRIUMF Laboratory in PAC’11 conference chair, on the right. Editor: Todd Satogata, JLab Vancouver, BC, Canada. The conference This ornate bell and collar, carried by Organizing Committee Conference Chair: Steve Gourlay, LBNL Date of Conference: May 3-8, 2015 will take place in the spring of 2018 and the conference chair and used to remind will be held in downtown Vancouver, attendees that sessions are about to begin Scientific Program Chair: Alex Chao, This conference, hosted by TJNAF and BC with possible venues being the again, was donated to the PAC series of SLAC FNAL, will be of historic significance th Hyatt Regency Vancouver hotel and the conferences at PAC’97 by Stephen Myers because this will be the 50 anniversary Vancouver Convention Center. Details (CERN) on behalf of the EPAC series Local Organizing Committee of the PAC series of conferences in North Chair: Chan Joshi, UCLA for this conference are being looked of conferences. America, which began in 1965. Contracts into by the Chair for the conference, Stan Schriber have been signed with six major hotels in Particle Accelerator Science IPAC’12 Conference Secretary: “Sam” Vanecek, Lia Merminga of TRIUMF. Projected and Technology Chair LBNL downtown Richmond, Virginia, all within attendance is 1,250 and the conference Conference Chair: Vic Suller easy walking or driving distance to the (CAMD, LSU) Proceedings Editor: Joe Chew, LBNL program will be geared toward scientists, Greater Richmond Convention Center, engineers, technologists and students Scientific Program Chair: Conference Management: Paula Pair, where the conference will be held. The Jeff Corbett (SSRL, SLAC) Centennial Conferences City of Richmond has offered to provide Stan Schriber can be reached at his home in transportation between the hotels and Eagle, ID 83616 USA; Phone: +1-208- LOC Chair: Kevin Morris Scientific Secretary: Christine the Convention Center at no charge to 631-8208, E-mail: [email protected] (CAMD, LSU) Petite-Jean Genaz the conference, depending on the number Treasurer: Glenna Rogers of rooms picked up at the hotels.

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by the modularity was a transformative Accelerator Laboratory. Before coming 2011 Particle Accelerator Science development in accelerator science, as to Fermilab, Alexander completed his it led to the design and optimization of B.S. at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Awards many other machines, not necessarily and Technology, and M.S., Ph.D., and synchrotrons and not necessarily circular. postdoctoral studies at Cornell University. EEE Fellow is a distinction reserved electron and positron bunches, the PWFA Shocking! Thus Al played an influential role in Definition I for select IEEE members whose driven by a proton bunch, as well as the design of essentially all particle Thesis research at Cornell University extraordinary accomplishments in any of beam-plasma laboratory experiments accelerators, built or not, in the U.S., under the guidance of Hasan Padamsee If electricity comes from electrons, the IEEE fields of interest are deemed with relevance to astrophysics. Europe and Asia, during the last 40 was devoted to the attempt to understand Somehow I hadn’t done the math does that mean morality comes fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. years of the 20th century. Some of the the so-called high field Q-slope (HFQS) that ‘popular’ times ‘a lot of people’ The IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences machines to whose design he made in SRF niobium cavities and mild from morons? Dr. Patric Muggli, of the University of Society grants the Particle Accelerator equals a craze. essential contributions are: the Bevatron, baking effect empirically found for Unknown Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Science and Technology Award to Wayne Gould (who started the Tevatron (and its earlier versions), ALS, removing it. Utilizing an approach based was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2011 individuals who have made outstanding Sudoku craze) PEP, PEP-II, SPEAR, the Fermilab on thermometry studies coupled with “for contributions to plasma wakefield contributions to the development p-bar accumulator, Aladdin, Taiwan Light RF tests followed by cavity dissection acceleration of electrons and positrons.” of particle accelerator science and Source, SSC, ISABELLE, NSLS, LHC, and analyzing areas of increased RF See his biography under the AWARDS technology. Two Awards are granted CBA, RHIC, the neutrino factory/muon losses using a set of surface analytical section. in each occurrence of the Particle collider, and others. techniques, the direct correlation between Accelerator Conferences held in Dr. Patric Muggli is a Research surface properties and RF behavior North America (PAC or IPAC). As part of the modular design process, Professor in the Electrical Engineering was possible to be established. In Al conceived specialized components such and Electrophysics Department at the This year’s Award Winners are: particular it was discovered that previous as spin rotators, dispersion suppressors, University of Southern California in suggested models for the HFQS based Alper A. Garren, “for Seminal matched long straight sections, tunable Los Angeles. He is a fellow of the IEEE on roughness, oxygen-enriched layer, Contributions to Beam Physics low-beta interaction regions etc., which and of the American Physical Society. and oxide structure are not appropriate. and Lattice Design” and Patric Muggli, have become standard modules in many He is well known for his numerous Application of electron backscattered “for Seminal Contributions to Beam storage rings and colliders. important contributions to the fields of diffraction allowed the discovery of the Physics and Beam-Plasma Interactions.” radiation sources, advanced accelerators The prize includes $3000 and a plaque, role of crystalline lattice defects in the and beam physics. In particular, since Dr. Al Garren is Guest Scientist at the which were presented at the award RF performance of superconducting Nb 1999 he has been one of the two lead Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ceremony on Thursday, March 31st in the cavities, in particular dislocations and experimentalists on the plasma wakefield which he joined in 1955 and from which 2011 Particle Accelerator Conference in vacancy-hydrogen complexes. accelerator (PWFA) experiments at the he retired in 1992. He is also Senior New York SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Scientist at Particle Beam Lasers, Inc. The optimization of the near-surface The 2011 IEEE NPSS Particle These experiments have generated a During his professional career he has structure of lattice defects and a Accelerator Science and Technology wealth of experimental results and have held temporary positions at Fermilab, complete understanding of their kinetics Doctoral Student Award is intended for culminated with the doubling of the the University of Tokyo, CERN, UCLA, throughout cavity processing steps is the Still slaving away individuals who have made outstanding Only if you succeed energy of 42GeV electrons in a meter- Indiana University, SSC, and JLAB. next problem, which Alexander and his thesis research in particle accelerator long plasma. This remarkable result colleagues in the SRF Materials Group Simplicity is embarrassing when Al Garren is known for his careful and science and technology as demonstrated A good puzzle, like virtue, is its transformed the PWFA into the leading at Fermilab led by Lance Cooley are you have to work for months to methodical design of the magnetic in a student’s doctoral thesis. own reward. new acceleration technique with the addressing at the moment. If successful lattice of many storage rings, which he achieve it. potential of revolutionizing the world of This year’s winner is Alexander it will provide a solid scientific ground Henry Dudeney carried out with his pioneering computer accelerators for high-energy physics and Romanenko of the Fermi National for further advancing quality factors and Kary Mullis code SYNCH, which he developed and fifth generation light sources. PWFA Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL). The gradients in SRF niobium cavities. improved over the years. For this work, experiments will continue at a dedicated citation reads: “For contributions to Al was elected Fellow of the APS in The prize includes $2000 and a plaque, facility at SLAC and will address the physics and materials science of 1990. Although initially motivated by which were presented at the award challenging issues, such as the high superconducting niobium radio-frequency st the need to design the Fermilab 200 BeV ceremony on Thursday, March 31 in the gradient acceleration of positron bunches resonating cavities, in particular for alternating gradient proton synchrotron, 2011 Particle Accelerator Conference in plasmas. discovering subtle structural changes that the code was developed in a modular in New York. The ceremony allows 10 occur during low-temperature baking.” His current research interests include fashion that allowed the specification of minutes for the recipients to give a brief the basic physics of the PWFA, efficient a virtually arbitrary machine by means Dr. Alexander Romanenko is currently summary of their thesis research. acceleration and focusing of high quality of an input file. The flexibility afforded a Peoples Fellow at Fermi National

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Plasma Science And Applications Plasma Science and Applications Constitution and Bylaws

2011 PSAC Award The Plasma Science and Applications Technical 6. Electron, ion, and plasma sources (b) The Chairperson shall appoint a Secretary the energy doubling from 42 GeV to Committee Bylaws have been modified to bring 7. Space plasmas for the Committee. The Secretary need not be Thomas C. Katsouleas 85 GeV in less than a meter of plasma them into alignment with new IEEE election chosen from among the elected members-at- of electrons from the 3-km-long 8. Intense electron and ion beams Dean Tom Katsouleas has received the requirements and with changes to the IEEE large, but should be a member of the Committee. SLAC accelerator. That collaboration NPSS Constitution and Bylaws. Please let Albe PSAC Award for 2011 “for fundamental 9. Laser-plasma interactions Section 4. also produced fundamental discoveries Larsen ([email protected]) know of any contributions to the field of plasma-based 10. Plasma diagnostics (a) The position of Chairperson shall be filled such as the collective refraction of objections to these changes by August 31, 2011. accelerators.” One of the early pioneers of 11. Plasma chemistry and processing by succession of the Vice-Chairperson, subject particle beams. Katsouleas organized Constitution and Bylaws of the Plasma to the approval of ExCom. In even numbered plasma accelerators, Katsouleas’ theoretical 12. Solid-state plasmas and cochaired the first of a series of Science and Applications Committee of the years, beginning in 2006, a Vice-Chairperson work was the first to show a skeptical biennial international workshops on IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society 13. Plasma heating shall be elected by the voting members of the community that, at least in principle, Brendan B. Godfrey laser and plasma accelerators that are Constitution 14. Plasmas for controlled fusion research ExCom from among the eligible members- a significant number of particles could at-large of the ExCom to serve for two years. Chair, PSA Technical Committee now in their twentieth year and have Article I—Name and Object be accelerated in such a device, and 15. High energy density plasmas Following this two-year term, he or she will be produced a number of Special Issues with what beam quality and efficiency. Section 1. This organization shall be known as 16. Industrial, commercial, and medical the sole candidate in an election for Chairperson, of the IEEE Transactions on Plasma He introduced or advanced a number the Plasma Science and Applications Committee applications of plasma science as specified in the Bylaws. If he or she is not Science. He has taught or mentored (PSAC) of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma approved, the procedure specified in the Bylaws of new concepts including the surfatron, 17. Plasma waves and instabilities many of the leading players in the Sciences Society (NPSS), referred to hereafter as will be used to select the next Chairperson. the plasma afterburner and the possible plasma accelerator community and has the Committee. This elective standing technical 18. High-power microwave and submillimeter The Most Recent Past Chairperson shall serve use of plasma lenses for the final focus of committee was formed in 1973. wave generation worked tirelessly to promote plasma for two years in a non-voting, advisory capacity. a linear collider. Later Dean Katsouleas accelerators and plasma science for their Section 2. The Committee shall strive for the 19. Pulsed power applications of plasmas (b) All directly elected members of ExCom built collaborations between the SLAC importance to science, future accelerators advancement of the theory and applications of Article III—Membership are eligible for election as Vice-Chairperson or National Accelerator Laboratory and plasma science and of its allied arts and sciences Chairperson. The term on the ExCom of the and societal applications. groups at UCLA and the University of and the maintenance of high scientific and Section 1. Members of the Committee are Vice-Chairperson and of the Chairperson shall members or affiliates of the NPSS who have Southern California that culminated in Tom Katsouleas can be reached by E-mail at technical standards among its members. automatically extend until they vacate their a professional interest in plasma science and offices. During this period, the Vice-Chairperson [email protected]. Section 3. The Committee shall aid in promoting applications. Only members of the Committee and the Chairperson shall be considered full close cooperation and exchange of technical are entitled to vote on Committee matters. information among its members and to this end members with a vote. No individual may be Tom Katsouleas shall hold meetings for the presentation and Article IV—Administration elected as Vice-Chairperson immediately after Dean, Duke University Pratt School a term as Chairperson. discussion of original contributions, shall assist Section 1. The Committee shall be managed by of Engineering in the publication of the Transactions on Plasma an Executive Committee (ExCom) consisting (c) In the event that neither the Chairperson Science, and shall otherwise provide for the needs of elected members-at-large, plus certain other nor the Vice-Chairperson is able to take office of its members. members as specified herein and in the Bylaws. as prescribed in the Bylaws or if both are Section 4. The Committee shall attempt to The number of elected members-at-large shall incapacitated or if both offices become vacant, be 18 members. the ExCom shall promptly elect an Acting provide information on plasma science to those JOIN the Nuclear & Chairperson from among the members-at-large who request it. Section 2. The terms of office of the elected to assume the duties of Chairperson until either members-at-large shall be three years. Members- Article II—Field of Interest the Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson takes office Plasma Sciences Society at-large elected to three-year terms may not Section 1. The field of interest of the Committee or resumes his or her duties. succeed themselves; however, such members- is the plasma sciences and their related People working together utilizing science, at-large may be candidates in the election held (d) If the Vice-Chairperson is unable to become technologies and applications. The Committee immediately after their term of service, for the Chairperson at the end of the two-year term, expanding the industry, furthering careers shall foster publication or other dissemination of term beginning a year after the expiration of their both the Vice-Chairperson and Chairperson original contributions to the theory, experiments, previous term. Election of members-at-large shall positions will be considered vacant. A new educational methods, and applications of plasma www.ieee-npss.org be held annually to fill vacancies for the coming Chairperson and a new Vice-Chairperson science and to the development of standards. year. The terms of office of the other members shall be elected by the voting members of the Areas of technical activity will include, but not be shall be specified in the Bylaws. ExCom from among the eligible members-at- limited to, the following: large of the ExCom. In this case, the Chairperson Section 3. Section 2. would serve two years and then become the (a) The affairs of the Committee shall be most recent Past Chairperson, and the Vice- 1. Magnetohydrodynamics managed by the Chairperson as directed by the Chairperson would succeed to Chairperson as 2. Thermionics and plasma diodes ExCom and in accordance with the powers and prescribed above. 3. Basic plasma phenomena duties as defined hereunder and in the Bylaws. (e) If the position of Vice-Chairperson is vacated In the event of the Chairperson’s absence or at any other time during the two-year term, a 4. Gaseous electronics incapacity, these duties shall be performed by 5. Microwave-plasma interaction the Vice-Chairperson. (continued on page 22)

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(continued from page 21) Section 4. A majority of the legal votes cast by Section 3. Committee Bylaws, and amendments Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS). obtain the results as far as possible in advance (e) Awards Subcommittee: To identify, encourage, those members of the Executive Committee thereto, may be adopted by a two-thirds vote of Additional meetings may be called at the of the Annual Meeting of the ExCom. and solicit PSAC member candidates for various replacement Vice-Chairperson will be elected by attending a meeting shall be necessary for the the ExCom at a regularly scheduled meeting, discretion of the Chairperson or upon request of 2.4. The Chairperson of the Committee shall IEEE awards, including the Plasma Science and the voting members of the ExCom from among conduct of its business except as otherwise provided that notice of the proposed Bylaw or at least nine voting members of the ExCom with arrange, before April 1, for a call for nominations Applications Award (see Bylaw 14). the eligible members-at-large to complete the provided in this Constitution. amendment has been sent to each member of the at least three weeks notice. to be conveyed to the whole membership through The Chairperson may authorize additional remainder of the term. This may also occur at Section 5. The business of the Executive ExCom at least a week prior to such meeting, 1.3. The last regularly scheduled meeting in the the NPSS News. Functional Subcommittees if deemed necessary the conclusion of the one-year term of a Vice- Committee may be handled by correspondence, or a Committee Bylaw or amendment may be calendar year shall be considered the Annual for the efficient functioning of the ExCom. Chairperson elected under the Constitution as 2.5. Current members-at-large of the ExCom telephone, or electronic communications adopted by a two-thirds mail vote of the members Meeting of the ExCom. it existed prior to 2005. Upon completion of the who are serving full terms are ineligible for 4.1. The terms of office of chairpersons of the (fax, email, etc.) where, in the opinion of the of the ExCom, provided that a 30-day period is Vice-Chairperson term, this Vice-Chairperson 1.4. In the absence of extenuating circumstances nomination. Functional Subcommittees shall be one year. Chairperson, matters requiring prompt action allowed for such responses. In either event, the would then succeed to Chairperson as prescribed as approved by the ExCom, an elected member- can be adequately handled in that manner. proposed Bylaw or amendment shall be published 2.6. All nominees must be either members in 4.2. The chairpersons of the Functional above. in the NPSS News. No Bylaw or amendment at-large who misses three successive meetings any grade of IEEE and NPSS or must have Subcommittees must be members of the A majority vote of the full ExCom is required shall automatically be dropped from the ExCom. (f ) In the event of the Chairperson’s absence or to take action in such cases. Telephone actions shall take effect until it has been approved by the submitted an application for membership in Committee. AdCom of the NPSS. incapacity, the Vice-Chairperson shall perform are to be promptly confirmed in writing by 2. Nomination and Election of ExCom IEEE and NPSS at the time the nomination is 5. Ballots: Ballots intended for all members of the duties of Chairperson. the Chairperson. Article VIII—Revision Members-at-Large: As specified in Article IV, forwarded to IEEE Headquarters. An affiliate the Committee shall be prepared by the Secretary the ExCom shall include 18 members-at-large, member of NPSS is not eligible to be a nominee Section 5. The Chairperson shall be an ex-officio at the direction of the Chairperson. No ballot Section 6. The Executive Committee shall meet Section 1. The Chairperson of the Committee each serving a three-year term. Six posts, plus for member-at-large. member of all subcommittees of the Committee. as required to conduct business and in accordance shall appoint a seven-person subcommittee every shall be counted unless it is unambiguously any vacancies occurring in the previous year, are 2.7. The Secretary shall annually arrange for the marked by a qualified Committee member to Section 6. The Chairperson, as soon as expedient with the Bylaws. tenth year, starting with January 1, 1984, to to be filled each year by election of the general distribution to the members of the Committee, indicate his or her choice and sent in a sealed after election, shall appoint the chairpersons of evaluate the effectiveness of this Constitution and Section 7. If the PSAC Chairperson is unable membership of the Committee. on or about July 31, of a ballot to elect the envelope bearing the voter’s name on or before the subcommittees provided for in the Bylaws. to represent the Committee at meetings of the Bylaws, to study the rules of governance required 2.1. The Chairperson of the Committee is candidates to fill member-at-large vacancies on the specified deadline date or is transmitted by All appointees serve at the pleasure of the NPSS Administrative Committee (AdCom), the by the activities of the Committee at that time, responsible for ensuring that at least one and the ExCom. The ballot shall be accompanied by a other secure voting means as IEEE may provide. Chairperson. Chairperson may designate the Vice-Chairperson and to consider writing a new Constitution one-half (1.5) nominations are obtained for each short biographical statement from each nominee. The distribution and counting of ballots issued to or the Most Recent Past Chairperson as his and Bylaws appropriate for the existing and Article V—Nomination and Election of position to be filled. Nominations may be made all members of the Committee shall be entrusted or her alternate. This alternate shall have the anticipated needs of the Committee. 2.8. Forty-five days after distribution of the Executive Committee Members-at-Large by any member of the ExCom or any member of to IEEE Headquarters. The Secretary of the privilege of the floor and may vote on all matters ballots, the IEEE Headquarters shall count and Bylaws the Committee, up until a date fixed each year Committee shall report the results to the ExCom Section 1. Nominating procedures shall be coming before AdCom. tabulate the votes received and report the results by the Chairperson of the Committee. That date at their next regular meeting. as prescribed in the Bylaws and shall include 1. Executive Committee: Article IV, Section 1 to the Secretary of PSAC, who, in turn, shall Article VII—Amendments shall be no later than July 1, but may be extended provision for nomination by Society members. of the Constitution provides that the ExCom notify the Chairperson 6. Beginning of Terms of Office: All terms Section 1. Amendments to this Constitution shall consist of a number of elected members- if required. Self-nominations are permitted. 2.9. The Chairperson of the ExCom shall submit of office of elected members-at-large of the Section 2. Election of the members-at-large of may be initiated by petition ratified by a two- at-large plus certain other members. These 2.2. The individual making a nomination must to the Secretary of the NPSS AdCom the names Executive Committee shall begin January 1 of the Executive Committee shall be as prescribed thirds vote of the ExCom, such petition being other members of the ExCom shall be, unless determine in advance that the nominee is willing of the candidates elected to fill the designated the year immediately following their election. in the Bylaws. submitted to the AdCom of the NPSS for they are already elected members-at-large, to serve if elected. A nomination is only valid vacancies. 7. The Chairperson of the Committee shall Section 3. If a member of the ExCom does not approval. After such approval, the proposed the Chairperson of the Committee, the Vice- if it is submitted in writing to the Chairperson actively encourage the broadest possible complete a term, the vacancy shall be filled at the amendment shall be published in the NPSS Chairperson of the Committee and the Editor 2.10. A member-at-large who is elected to fill or the Secretary of the Committee. The name, representation from throughout the plasma next regular election for the unexpired portion of News, with notice that it goes into effect of the Transactions on Plasma Science. Certain an uncompleted term is eligible for renomination address, e-mail address, and phone number science community on the ExCom and in the term. unless 20 members of the Plasma Science and other individuals who are carrying out specific to the ExCom for a term beginning at the of the nominee must be included, as well as its activities. Applications Committee object in writing to functions or activities are also expected to attend a short biographical statement. In addition, expiration of the partial term. Article VI—Meetings the President of the NPSS within 90 days of the ExCom meetings, even if they are not 8. Any member of the Committee may present the nomination must provide either the IEEE 3. Each of the Functional Subcommittees shall Section 1. The Committee may hold meetings, the date of mailing of the notice. voting members of the ExCom. These include a contributed paper at meetings sponsored by membership number of the nominee, or a submit a written report of its activities to the conferences, symposia or conventions either the Secretary, the elected AdCom members the Committee, provided that the subject matter If such objections are received, a copy of the statement that an application for membership ExCom prior to or at the Annual Meeting. alone or in cooperation with other organizations, proposed amendment shall be mailed with a representing the interests of PSAC, the Most in the IEEE and NPSS has been submitted. of the paper is, in the judgment of the Program 4. Functional Subcommittees: The Chairperson subject to applicable IEEE and NPSS rules and ballot to all members of the Committee at least Recent Past Chairperson of the Committee, the Committee for the meeting, germane to Plasma 2.3. Given that there are more nominations of the Committee shall appoint the chairpersons regulations. The primary conference to be held by 30 days before the date set for the return of the chairpersons of the Functional Subcommittees, Science. than posts to be filled, those nominees receiving and members of the following Functional the Committee shall be the IEEE International ballots; the ballots shall carry a statement of the and the chairpersons of the ICOPS to be held in 9. The Editor of the Transactions on Plasma the highest number of votes will be elected. Subcommittees: Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS). deadline for their return to IEEE Headquarters. the following two years. In addition, chairpersons Science and the Editorial Board shall strive of ICOPS to be held more than two years in the Any vacancy on the ExCom resulting from Section 2. Meetings, conferences, or conventions When a mail vote of the entire Committee an uncompleted three-year term shall remain (a) Membership Subcommittee: To recommend to assure that publication of papers in the sponsored by the Committee shall be open membership is made necessary, approval of the future are expected to attend at least one ExCom to the ExCom and to implement approved Transactions depends only upon the technical meeting per year, in order to present a progress unfilled until the next regularly scheduled to all members or affiliates of the NPSS. The amendment by at least two-thirds of the ballots election. At that time, the remainder of the actions to increase PSAC membership. merit of the paper, and not upon the financial Committee may not sponsor or cosponsor a returned shall be necessary for its enactment. report on the preparations for their conferences. condition of the author. uncompleted term shall be filled by the nominee (b) Site Selection Subcommittee: To identify, meeting that is in any way subject to security 1.1. The voting members of the ExCom shall be Section 2. As an alternative to the procedure receiving the next highest vote total after encourage, and solicit potential ICOPS sites and 10. The Chairperson of PSAC is elected by clearance. the elected members-at-large, the Chairperson outlined in Section 1 above, ten members of determination of the six regular three-year conference chairpersons. written ballot in even-numbered years. The Section 3. Eight voting members of the the Committee may submit a petition to the and the Vice-Chairperson of the Committee, and terms. In the event of a tie vote by the general ballot will indicate two choices: 1) the current (c) Human Rights Subcommittee: To recommend Executive Committee shall constitute a quorum. AdCom of the NPSS. If approved by the NPSS the Editor of the Transactions on Plasma Science. membership of PSAC, the individual selected Vice-Chairperson, and 2) an indication that an to the ExCom and to implement approved No member shall have more than one vote for AdCom and after notification of the ExCom, the 1.2. The ExCom shall meet at least two will be determined by a majority vote of the open election is desirable. The Secretary of the actions to foster human rights. any reason. A member-at-large may appoint a proposed amendment shall be submitted to the times per year, upon dates determined by the voting members of the ExCom. The tie-breaking Committee shall send written ballots to all voting proxy to represent him or her at an Executive membership of the entire Plasma Science and Chairperson at least three weeks in advance of vote of the ExCom members shall be conducted (d) Minicourse Subcommittee: To identify, ExCom members at least three weeks prior to Committee meeting. However, such a proxy Applications Committee for ratification by mail the meeting. One of these two meetings shall be by fax or electronic mail by the Secretary of the encourage, and solicit potential ICOPS may not cast a vote. ballot as described in Section 1. held in conjunction with the IEEE International Committee. The Secretary shall endeavor to minicourses. (continued on page 24)

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(continued from page 23) the Site Selection Subcommittee. The ICOPS paper in the Transactions on Plasma Science. Chairperson is expected to follow the guidelines Publicity announcing the recipient shall appear NPSS Expands its GOLD Activities the Annual Meeting. The marked ballots may established by ExCom and in the Manual for in appropriate NPSS publications and in other be sent or delivered in person to the Secretary the Policy and Procedure for IEEE/NPSS professional publications. prior to the beginning of the Annual Meeting. ince 2009, the Nuclear and Plasma underway. Moreover, among the GOLD Conferences. The Conference Chairperson is Nomination forms for the following year’s The Chairperson shall designate tellers to S Sciences Society has offered dedicated members of 2011 there are certainly the responsible for the budget of the conference and award are to be distributed at the ICOPS. A verify and count the ballots during the Annual career-advice sessions for the GOLD future conference organizers, program- determines the registration fees to be charged, nomination must be endorsed by three current Meeting. Should the Vice-Chairperson fail to subject to approval by the ExCom and the IEEE members. Any person except a current members of this society at its Nuclear and general chairs. Shouldn’t we start receive a majority of the ballots cast, then ExCom NPSS. He or she shall appoint the members of voting member of the ExCom or a previous Science Symposia/Medical Imaging to talk to them about what our future will itself determine a slate of candidates for the Organizing Committee and the Program PSAC Award recipient is eligible for the Award. Conferences (NSS/IC). GOLD members conferences and meetings will look like? Chairperson and vote at the Annual meeting. The Committee. At least one former chairperson of Nominations are submitted to the Chairperson term of office of Chairperson shall begin January are those valuable society members who They will organize the meetings and, an ICOPS shall be included on the Program of the Awards Subcommittee, who shall mail 1 of the year immediately following the election. Committee. The ICOPS Chairperson shall also have graduated within the last decade. more important, they will provide the nomination materials to the voting members At the career-advice sessions, GOLD scientific content. The earlier they can 11. Election of the Vice-Chairperson of PSAC: present a list of Technical Area Coordinators of the ExCom at least one month prior to the The Vice-Chairperson of the ExCom shall be (TACs) to the ExCom for approval at the Annual Annual Meeting. Selection of the recipient members meet in a casual atmosphere make their opinions known, the better. Christoph Ilgner nominated and elected from among the eligible Meeting 18 months prior to the conference is performed by the PSAC Special Award with IEEE Fellows, laboratory leaders Whether you are a GOLD member or GOLD Committee Chair elected members-at-large of the ExCom. and a list of Session Organizers (SOs) to the Subcommittee, which is comprised of the and other senior people who have had not, think about it! ExCom for approval at the ExCom meeting 12 Nominations and seconds shall be solicited Chairperson and the Vice-Chairperson of the successful careers both in academia months prior to the conference. These two lists My own involvement with IEEE began in by the Chairperson prior to or during the Committee, the elected members-at-large of and industry. Young NPSS members Annual Meeting in even-numbered years. The shall not include individuals who have served 2003 when I attended the IEEE Nuclear the ExCom, and the Editor of the Transactions can discuss their own career plans and Chairperson will accept nominations and seconds consecutively in the same capacity for the 3 on Plasma Science. The selection is based upon Science Symposium and Medical Imaging prior ICOPS. Any minicourse offered must be network among themselves and with up to one month prior to the Annual Meeting. scientific accomplishments in the field of plasma Conference for the first time. Shortly The slate of candidates for Vice-Chairperson submitted for approval to the ExCom and should senior NPSS members. A good sign is science, professional service to PSAC and to before, I had been asked by a colleague will appear on the same ballot as the election for follow the ICOPS Minicourse Guidelines. The the plasma science community, and any other that there is usually no lack of the latter, ICOPS Chairperson shall have full authority over to coordinate the poster sessions there— Chairperson, and the same tabulation procedures information the Special Award Subcommittee including the conference chairs, who the management and technical content of the a lot of work, but also fun! And I liked shall be followed. After the election of the wishes to consider. No more than four votes willingly devote an hour or two of their Chairperson at the Annual Meeting, the vote for conference, subject to the oversight of ExCom. of the Special Award Subcommittee by secret the team that organized the conference, valuable conference time to this kind Vice-Chairperson shall be announced and the 13. Open Business Meeting of the Committee: ballot shall be taken at a separate Subcommittee so I joined IEEE right away, and over of event. nominee receiving a majority of votes cast shall An annual open Business Meeting of the Meeting following the Annual Meeting. The time I have taken on more responsibility; be declared elected. In the event that no Committee shall be held in conjunction with vote of at least 3/4 of the Subcommittee present, After a successful pilot event in Orlando, volunteer activity in IEEE still makes candidate receives a majority of the votes cast, ICOPS. but no fewer than six votes, is required to select a runoff elections shall be conducted by secret FL in 2009, the same format was again sense to me, along with my job at 14. The Plasma Science and Applications recipient. If no agreement of the Subcommittee ballot at the Annual Meeting between the used successfully in Knoxville in 2010. Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf Award: To recognize outstanding individual can be reached or if no candidates are nominated, candidates receiving the two highest numbers contributions to the field of Plasma Science, the Award will be skipped for that year. This success allows for an extension of in Germany, where I work as a physicist. of votes until one candidate receives a majority the Committee presents a Plasma Science and 15. The Secretary shall maintain a permanent this format to other conferences organized Your way in IEEE could be similar—or of the votes cast. The term of office of Vice- Applications Award at the ICOPS. The Award record of the minutes of past meetings and by the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences completely different as you prefer. A good Chairperson shall begin January 1 of the year consists of a monetary award and a plaque, with shall forward these records to the successor at immediately following the election. Society, and this is what the GOLD starting point might be to get involved the award money included in the ICOPS budget. the conclusion of the term as Secretary. The committee plans for 2011. NPSS GOLD with the conferences the IEEE Nuclear But they choose both! 12. The IEEE International Conference on Changes in the Award amount must be approved Secretary shall also provide a copy of the PSAC members will receive a personal invitation and Plasma Sciences Society organizes. Plasma Science: The chairperson of an ICOPS by AdCom and the appropriate IEEE committee. Constitution and Bylaws to each newly-elected to the GOLD event upon registration Here is a list: http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/ must be a member of the Plasma Science The recipient shall be invited to deliver an member-at-large. Politics is the art of choosing and Applications Committee. The ICOPS address at the ICOPS in the year of the Award at the conference, since the GOLD conferences.html. There you can find the Chairperson and the ICOPS site are selected by and to submit the text of the talk for an invited October 18, 2004; October 2010 attribute is now easily identified from the contact information for the conference between the disastrous and the ExCom from proposals brought forward by member number. Young colleagues that organizers. You may want to get in touch the unpalatable. decide right at the conference to join our with the general chair right away, sending John Kenneth Galbraith community are also welcome; they will him or her a brief e-mail saying that the receive their invitation when they join at conference caught your interest because the membership table. you work in the field and that you want to get involved. There are many possibilities, Is there anything the NPSS will receive depending on your availability and skills in return from its GOLD members? which you will be able to foster over Of course there is. As we all know, time, as I have said above: Organizing IEEE is a unique place to foster one’s conferences is work, but it is also fun own career, to develop leadership skills and connects you with special people. and to become active in both one’s own professional field and in the society as a Christoph Ilgner can be reached at whole. NPSS GOLD members are well [email protected].

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Awards Joachim V. R. Heberlein work his efforts focused on understanding, J.V.R. Heberlein received the Diploma quantifying and controlling arc-electrode in Physics from the Technical University attachment instabilities and their effects 2011 NPSS Fellows Stuttgart, Germany, and the Ph.D. degree on plasma processes. He presently holds The IEEE offers Institute Awards, and most societies and Society Technical Committees also in Mechanical Engineering from the the Ernst Eckert chair in Mechanical offer awards. Elevation to IEEE Fellow is a prestigious honor awarded each year to no more University of Minnesota in 1966 and Engineering. He has authored or than 0.1% of the full IEEE membership by the Institute’s Board of Directors. Nominations 1975, respectively. coauthored more than 325 publications are made from among Senior Members and nominees must be supported by at least six and 7 book chapters, and holds 12 From 1975 to 1989 he was at the Fellows. After being reviewed and ranked by the appropriate IEEE Society, the nominations patents. He was awarded the grade of Westinghouse R&D Center involved in are forwarded to the Institute’s Fellow Committee who then recommend a list of candidates to Fellow by ASM International and by research on a variety of plasma-related the IEEE Board of Directors for their consideration. The Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society the International Plasma Chemistry applications, first as senior engineer in is justifiably proud of its Fellows. We present here the Class of 2011 Fellows, and wish them Society, and was elected to the Thermal Power Interruption Research, then as Bill Moses each our heartfelt congratulations. Spray Hall of Fame of the Thermal Joachim V. R. Heberlein NPSS Awards Committee Chair manager of Lamp Research, Applied Spray Society. He received the Plasma Plasma Research, and Nuclear and Chemistry Award, and the Alexander Radiation Technology. Since 1989 he von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award has been at the Mechanical Engineering from the German Government, and he Véronique Ferlet-Cavrois Department at the University of served as visiting professor and Chair of Effects in Components and Systems Minnesota working in the areas of plasma Véronique Ferlet-Cavrois graduated (RADECS) conference she is a member International Cooperation at the Tokyo heat transfer, electrode effects, plasma Institute of Technology in 2002. from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure of the technical committee and has instabilities and various plasma process d’Electronique et de Radioelectricité de served as a Short Course Chair and developments, in particular for plasma Citation: For contributions to plasma arc Grenoble (ENSERG), France in 1990. Session Chair. She is presently the deposition of special coatings and for electrode technologies. She received the degree of “Habilitation Associate Member of the RADECS nanoparticle synthesis. In much of his à Diriger des Recherches” from the Bureau and Liaison between RADECS University of Grenoble in 2005. She and NSREC. For the IEEE Nuclear joined the Commissariat à l’Energie and Space Radiation Effects Conference Atomique (CEA) at Bruyères-le-Châtel, (NSREC) she has served as a Short Ronald M. Keyser detectors and situations, well documented France, in 1991. Between 2001 and 2009, Course Instructor, Session Chair, and Ron Keyser obtained his Ph.D. degree and easily maintainable. Ron was she served as a project leader for CEA as a Member-at-Large of the Radiation from the University of Florida in 1970. principal developer of the spectrum Véronique Ferlet-Cavrois and the French Ministry of Defense Effects Steering Group (RESG). She His research made extensive use of both analysis program OmniGam and of its developing hardened components, and as has served as a reviewer for the IEEE gamma ray (GeLi) and neutron detectors transformation into GammaVision, a the deputy head of the CEA “technology Transactions on Nuclear Science as well as as well as computer-based data systems. tool developed to produce analysis results and radiation effects” section. As part for many other journals. In late 1971, following a period working rather than a scientific investigation. of her research activities, she has been Dr. Véronique Ferlet-Cavrois has on computer simulations for the RAE-B Ron developed several new peak area involved in the development of several authored or coauthored more than 100 satellite, he moved to ORTEC to work analysis techniques, fitting schemes and generations of Silicon-On-Insulator papers and has given presentations at on NIM and CAMAC modules for High correction methods to make the program (SOI) and bulk-silicon technologies several conferences (including the IEEE Energy Physics research. In the late 1970s more accurate and reliable. The user (from 0.8 µm down to sub-0.1 µm) NSREC, RADECS, and IEEE SOI he developed the software for a computer- interface was simplified for ease of use for military and space applications. Conferences), including papers which based MultiChannel Analyzer as well as by technicians in analysis laboratories, Ronald M. Keyser Over the last several years at CEA, she have won two Best Papers at RADECS for PET systems. Since the late 1980s, he thereby increasing the availability of worked on the reliability of advanced (1999 and 2001), and two Meritorious has concentrated on HPGe detectors, low gamma spectroscopy as an analysis tool. 50-nm technologies for use in radiation Papers (in 2004) and four Outstanding background systems and data reduction environments. In 2009, she moved to the The proper accounting for the incoming Conference Papers at the NSREC (from software, making their use more accessible European Space Agency (ESA), where data rate from radioactive decay and for 2005 to 2008). Véronique is a Fellow of to “nonscientists” for solving their she works on radiation hardness assurance counting uncertainty is necessary for the IEEE and a Member of the NPSS. problems by using nuclear techniques. issues in support of several space projects. accurate activity calculations. Ron was A major contribution to this end was a member of the team that developed a Dr. Véronique Ferlet-Cavrois has served Citation: For contributions to the f ield of the development of spectrum analysis method for storing the spectrum variance the radiation effects community in radiation effects on electronic devices and software for use by non-spectroscopists. along with the dead time corrected numerous capacities. For the RADiation integrated circuits. The software had to be reliable, robust, applicable to a wide range of HPGe (continued on page 28)

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(continued from page 27) Ron has written and reviewed standards Medicine. He is a member of the Science NMISC Awards Committee. He is an related to radiation detection equipment Council of the American Association Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions spectrum in the hardware (U.S. Patent and software as a member of IEEE of Physicists in Medicine. He was the on Nuclear Science, and a member of the 6,327,549, July 2000). This advancement Standards Committee, ANSI N42, and Program Chair of the 2002 IEEE NPSS International Advisory Board for Physics enabled the calculation of the uncertainty the IEC TC 45. He has written over 90 Medical Imaging Conference (MIC), in Medicine and Biology. rather than its estimation in the analysis publications and 20 instruction manuals. has served twice on the Nuclear Medical results for gamma-ray emitting materials. Ron has contributed to the work of the and Imaging Steering Committee that Citation: For contributions to positron The reporting of accurate uncertainties NPSS in many ways, notably as the 2010 sponsors MIC, and was Chair of the emission tomography. with the results is necessary in many NSS/MIC General Chairman. analyses, especially in monitoring of foodstuffs, construction materials, and Citation: For contributions to high purity materials for human contact. germanium detectors for gamma-ray Patric Muggli in advanced accelerator physics, and spectroscopy. Dr. Patric Muggli is best known for his culminated with the doubling of the contributions to radiation generation, energy of 42 GeV electrons in only 85 particle beams and plasma interaction, cm of plasma. These remarkable results and particle beams manipulations. He transformed the PWFA into the forefront Paul Kinahan While working on the PET/CT obtained his bachelor’s degree and his new acceleration technology that could scanner, the group developed CT-based Paul Kinahan is a graduate of the Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute revolutionize linear particle accelerators at attenuation correction methods that have Engineering Physics program at the of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, the energy frontier by making them more become the method of choice in PET/ University of British Columbia in with specializations in plasma physics and compact and therefore more affordable. CT scanners. In parallel Dr. Kinahan Vancouver, BC. From there he received high-power microwave sources. After a also developed methods for accelerated He also leads basic PWFA physics the B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. degrees. His postdoc at UCLA he became a research iterative image reconstruction working experiments at the Brookhaven National master’s thesis was with Joel Rogers professor at the University of Southern with Michael Defrise, Claude Comtat and Laboratory Accelerator Test Facility at TRIUMF where he developed the California, Los Angeles. 3D-Reprojection image reconstruction Christian Michael, and for the objective where he is developing new particle beam Dr. Patric Muggli algorithm for volume PET scanners. assessment of PET image quality with He is currently group leader at the Max manipulation techniques. which has been implemented by PET Carole Lartizien and the late Richard Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, His current research interests include scanner manufacturers. For his Ph.D. Swensson. In 1997 he received the Germany. He has authored or coauthored the basic physics of the PWFA, the Paul Kinahan work he moved to the University of IEEE-NPSS Young Investigator Medical more than 60 scientific publications and acceleration of high quality electron and Pennsylvania in Philadelphia to work Imaging Science Career Award jointly given numerous invited presentations. positron bunches in plasmas and dielectric with Gerd Meuhllehner and Joel Karp with Martin Tornai. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and of the accelerators, proton-driven PWFAs, and during the construction of several PET American Physical Society. He is one beam- plasma interaction in regimes In 2001 Dr. Kinahan moved to the scanners, including the PENN-PET of the NPSS distinguished lecturers. relevant to laboratory astrophysics. and the HEAD-PET scanners (HEAD University of Washington in Seattle where he is a Professor of Radiology, He is lead experimentalist on the Citation: For Seminal Contributions = Humongous Extent in the Axial plasma wakefield accelerator (PWFA) Direction). with adjunct appointments in Electrical to Beam Physics and Beam-Plasma Engineering and BioEngineering. More experiments at the SLAC National Interactions. After receiving his Ph.D. in recently he has focused on improving Accelerator Laboratory. These experiments Bioengineering in 1994, Dr. Kinahan the quantitative accuracy of PET/CT in have led to many important results (continued on page 30) moved to the University of Pittsburgh cancer imaging, in particular for assessing to work with David Townsend in the response to therapy. This has included newly-created PET imaging center. At compensations for artifacts and use of that time the PET physics group under more accurate models of the PET and Vice versa is often and ugly Dr. Townsend, that also included Thomas CT imaging physics. Beyer, constructed the first PET/CT To rise from error to truth is rare scanner as a research prototype. This He is past president of the Society and beautiful. system established the proof of concept of Nuclear Medicine Computer and of PET/CT imaging, which was rapidly Instrumentation Council and the Victor Hugo adopted by all PET manufacturers. American Board of Science in Nuclear

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(continued from page 29) production, focusing and transport of emission and retrapping occur along Science and Applications Award, and has Dr. Paul F. Ottinger both intense electron and ion beams. He the MITL. Additionally, his in-depth earned six NRL Alan Berman Research is known in the international inertial analysis of a conical MITL in z-pinch- Publication Awards. He has published Dr. Paul F. Ottinger is the former Head confinement fusion (ICF) community as driven inertial-fusion-energy systems 200 scientific papers and actively of the Theory and Analysis Section in an expert in ion beam transport, stability, demonstrates the feasibility of coupling participates in IEEE and APS conference the Pulsed Power Physics Branch of the and final focusing. An example of Dr. power through a recyclable MITL to an and editorial activities. Plasma Physics Division at the Naval Ottinger’s inventiveness is his electron- ICF target. Citation: For contributions to the physics of Research Laboratory (NRL) beam-bunching concept, by using drift Dr. Ottinger is also a Fellow of the intense charged particle beams and vacuum orbits in a wire-guided plasma channel, Dr. Ottinger received his B.A. in physics American Physical Society (APS), is pulsed-power technology. he predicted relativistic electron-beam from the University of Pennsylvania in the recipient of the 1992 IEEE Plasma 1970 and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the bunching, which was later demonstrated University of Maryland in 1974 and experimentally. He has also been deeply Paul F. Ottinger 1977, respectively. From 1971 to 1973 involved in developing understanding Fred W. Sexton he served in the U.S. Army at Fort of the operation of the rod pinch diode 1989. He has served on the Radiation Detrick, MD, where he earned the Army for radiographic applications. Here, an Fred W. Sexton (S’74-M’78-SM’01) is Effects Steering Group as the Vice- Commendation Medal. In 1977, he intense electron beam is pinched onto a manager of the Nuclear Weapon Program Chair for Publications (2007-2009), started his career as a National Research small rod made of high-atomic-number Partnerships department at Sandia and Member at Large (1999-2002). Council Research Associate at NRL in material, which produces an intense, National Laboratories. He previously held Conference positions include General Washington, DC, and following this small-spot-size X-ray source. positions as manager of the Radiation Chairman of the 2005 Nuclear and postdoctoral appointment continued and Reliability Physics department, Space Radiation Effects Conference, In the area of vacuum pulsed-power working at NRL as a JAYCOR senior and program manager supporting the technical program chairman (’99), guest technology, Dr. Ottinger is internationally research physicist. In 1985, Dr. Ottinger NNSA weapons facilities at Sandia. editor (’96-98), short course chairman known as an expert on the theory of joined NRL as Head of the Theory and He joined Sandia in 1978 as a Member (’92), short course speaker (’92) , and plasma-opening switches (POS) and Analysis Section, a position he held of Technical Staff and has performed session chairman (’89). In addition, he is now advancing the understanding of until retirement in 2010. From 2007 to research in the areas of silicon solar cell won Outstanding Conference Paper dynamic electron flow in magnetically 2009, he also served as acting Associate device design and manufacture, radiation- awards at the 1984, 1997, 2001, and 2005 Fred W. Sexton Superintendent of the Plasma Physics insulated transmission line (MITL) hardened IC technology development, Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Division at NRL. He currently continues systems. The short-conduction-time POS IC manufacturing, and radiation effects Conferences and the 1985 and 1990 to contribute at NRL as a consultant. is used at the output of conventional in semiconductor devices and ICs. He HEART Conferences. He has published capacitive pulsed-power generators, has attended every Nuclear and Space 69 refereed papers and 15 proceedings on For over more than three decades, Dr. increasing the power by pulse compression Radiation Effects Conference since radiation effects, microsystem reliability, Ottinger has had an exceptional record through inductive energy storage. His 1983. After completing two years of and solar cell design and performance. of achievement in theoretical research work helped lead the way to extend undergraduate study at the U.S. Naval He also has presented 23 invited papers, supporting a broad range of programs Mum’s the word POS operation to long conduction time Academy, Annapolis, MD, he received and has coauthored a chapter in the IEEE associated with the physics of intense (~ 1 microsecond) for development of his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical Encyclopedia of Electronics and Electrical charged-particle beams and pulsed-power Never explain—your friends do not inductive generators. Dr. Ottinger is engineering from the University of Engineering. technology. He is an analytic theorist also impacting pulsed-power technology need it and your enemies will not Arkansas in 1976 and 1978, respectively, Citation: For contributions to the study of who works closely with experimentalists through his recent work on power flow in believe you anyway. specializing in solid-state device physics ionizing radiation effects and destructive and numericists. During his career Dr. MITLs. His rescaled MITL flow model and semiconductor technologies. single-event effects in microelectronics. Elbert Hubbard Ottinger has developed expertise in more accurately reproduces the properties Fred has served the radiation-effects the specialized areas of intense particle of MITL flow, significantly improving beams, fast-opening plasma switches, community in a variety of positions since (continued on page 32) the predictive capability of the model diode physics, pulsed-power physics and for designing accelerators and analyzing technology, and plasma-radiation sources. experimental results. His new generalized In particular, Dr. Ottinger has worked MITL flow model provides solutions extensively on problems relating to for dynamic situations where electron

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(continued from page 31) algorithm; a channelized Hotelling This is Raymond S. Larsen, Deputy position and charge monitoring and Gengsheng (Larry) Zeng trace collimator design method based Director for the Accelerator Engineering laser precision alignment systems. He on reconstructed image rather than the Directorate at the SLAC National also completed the Professional Degree Larry Zhen, of the University of Utah sampled projections; modified ML-EM Accelerator Laboratory, the recipient of Engineer in Electrical Engineering faculty, began his research contributions algorithms, such as a transmission data of the 2011 Institute of Electrical and at Stanford University. In 1966 with the with his Ph.D. thesis work in adaptive algorithm and an algorithm with a step- Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Nuclear beam now running, he was tapped to filtering in which he developed an IIR size controlling parameter; and a method and Plasma Sciences Society Merit head a small R&D group for experimental The way to longevity (infinite impulse response) algorithm that to reduce the Gibbs ringing artifact by Award. The award will be presented at detector electronics, nanosecond counting had a unimodel objective function with a filtering the image using level sets. the NSS-MIC conference in October, logic and readout, and joined the He is so unpopular, if he became unique global optimum. 2011 in Valencia, Spain. interlaboratory collaboration developing Dr. Zeng has developed a novel skew- a funeral director, people would the revolutionary NIM modular His early work developed analytical and slit collimator for small animal SPECT The award recognizes outstanding stop dying. instrument standard. For the next two iterative reconstruction algorithms for imaging to replace the state-of-the-art contributions to the field of nuclear decades Ray enjoyed the richest years Lord Stratford (on John Major) Larry Zeng attenuation correction including analytical multipinhole collimator that is being and plasma sciences. of discovery at SLAC, designing and full and short scan reconstruction evaluated by Siemens for preclinical Ray has spent most of his career helping leading design teams for instrument algorithms for attenuated fan beam imaging. Dr. Zeng’s recent work includes define the electronic standards used for “firsts” such as the End Station precision projection data as well as analytical SPECT region-of-interest (ROI) instrumentation and control of complex toroidal charge monitor with digital algorithms for quantitative reconstruction reconstruction of truncated emission data devices like accelerators and tokamaks. noise averaging; first proportional of variable attenuated projection data. corrected for attenuation using truncated He was heavily involved in the NIM, wire chambers and readouts for profile Today much of this work is used in transmission measurements. attenuation and scatter corrected CAMAC, FASTBUS and VME-P monitoring; first CAMAC high density myocardial perfusion imaging to improve His work has been incorporated in both standards and, in 2009, became co- drift chamber readout sample-and-hold the specificity and sensitivity of detecting clinical patient SPECT systems and small founder and chair of the new committee ADC; and first analog sampling ICs coronary artery disease. animal preclinical imaging systems. finalizing the standards for physics use and hybrid ICs used to instrument an of Advanced TCA and Micro TCA. entire detector system. Ray’s leadership Later creative works included the Citation: For contributions in Not only has Ray helped develop role at SLAC grew through the 1970s, development of image reconstruction instrumentation and image reconstruction standards, he encourages the community when he led the Physics Instrumentation algorithms for the varying focal algorithm development in single photon to develop them opportunistically so R&D Group and from 1980 to 1988 length SPECT collimator; a total emission computed tomography. that when major projects arise, they will headed the Electronics Department variation regulated EM reconstruction be ready for rapid deployment. In this including instrumentation, controls, way, he has helped commercialize the power conversion, electronic shops standards and make basic infrastructure and equipment pools. In 1988 Ray 2011 Society Awards readily available at very low development became CEO of a Silicon Valley startup, cost to the community as a whole. designing high density gigahertz sampling Society Awards recognize individuals for their technical contributions and for their service systems (the company won a national to the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society. The recipients are selected by the Society’s After his B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. in Who was he? design award for its innovative products). Awards Committee and the awards are presented at the conference of the recipient’s choice. Electrical Engineering at the University From 1995 on, back at SLAC, Ray These are the most prestigious awards offered by the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society. of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), ...he has had experience enough was first appointed System Engineer Technical Committee Awards are listed with Technical Committee reports and represent Ray immediately began a research career in public affairs to make him a responsible for the controls and fast significant achievement within a specific technical community. with the Defense Research Board of beam feedback hardware systems of statesman, and not enough to make Canada in Quebec City in 1958 applying the Positron-Electron-Positron (PEP) him a politician. the new Ku band microwave sources storage ring collider; then was appointed to CW and nanosecond pulse radars James Russell Lowell Merit Award a Deputy to the Associate Director for promulgate international standards and a high atmosphere balloon-borne Engineering to oversee the Controls Raymond S. Larsen for data acquisition and processing. spectrometer. In early 1962 he drove and Power Conversion Departments. Written by Enzo Carrone And, today, imagine the very same through a blizzard to Montreal for an Simultaneously he was appointed to head person leading an IEEE Humanitarian interview for a job at SLAC. By October Imagine a person who spent over 40 years up electronics for the proposed 20-mile 1962 he was at “Project M” designing promoting new electronic technologies Technology Challenge initiative (Haiti International Linear Collider (ILC) beam position and charge monitors for detectors and particle accelerators. Reliable Electricity Project) which will and subsequently developed the High Imagine him providing, at the same time, provide electricity to the suffering people using analog sampling with new devices leadership and drive to build and nurture of the post-earthquake Haiti. called FETs, and over the next four years Raymond S. Larsen generations of engineers and physicists, designed and commissioned the beam (continued on page 34)

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(continued from page 33) building the posters in his garage. Richard F. Shea Distinguished (including being the Program Chairman Ray is currently NPSS AdCom Liaison Member Award in 1993). He was involved in founding the Availability Electronics R&D program to the IEEE Humanitarian Technology William W. Moses Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences for Controls, DC and Pulsed Power Challenge (HTC) and to the Society for Technical Committee and was one of Systems. He was instrumental in William W. Moses was selected as Social Implications of Technology. In its charter members (1990). However, initiating the solid state induction the recipient of the Richard F. Shea Bye-Bye 2009 he lobbied to create the Community his major early contribution was to and Marx modulator programs and Distinguished Member Award for 2011, Solutions Initiative (CSI) to bring reliable spearhead the formation of the Radiation introducing the ATCA and MicroTCA which is given “To recognize outstanding Some bring happiness wherever electricity to impoverished countries Instrumentation Technical Committee standards to the ILC community. contributions through leadership and with a locally owned sustainable business (RISC) in 1996 and to be the first RISC they go; others whenever they go. service to the NPSS and to the fields of Concurrently he became appointed the model; he cochairs CSI and heads the Chairman. He has since been elected to Oscar Wilde Nuclear and Plasma Sciences.” electronics representative to the 6-person mobile solar generator project for Haiti. serve on AdCom three times, representing Project Advisory Panel to Management Dr. Moses is a Senior Staff Scientist at the both the NMISC from 1996-2000 and The impact of Ray Larsen’s leadership of the U.S. ATLAS Detector program for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory the RISC from 2002-2006 and 2011- on the field of Particle Accelerators and William W. Moses the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, one in Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., where he has 2015. He was President of the NPSS Experimental Physics is enormous: Ray is of the largest and most complex detectors worked ever since obtaining his Ph.D. from 2004 to 2006, and has also been involved in leading the Instrumentation ever built. The detector is now online and in Physics in 1986 from the University active at the IEEE level, serving on the and Controls field through another performing spectacular physics and the of California at Berkeley. His research Publication Products and Services Board, transition to a state-of-the-art technology new advisory role concerns operations, has centered on radiation detection and and presently is Chair of the IEEE which will greatly impact the way maintenance and future upgrades. imaging for nuclear medical imaging, Conferences Committee. particle accelerators, light sources, fusion homeland security, and subatomic particle IEEE has always been important to machines, detectors, telescopes and a host physics, and he has made contributions Bill Moses can be reached at the Lawrence Ray: he volunteered in many capacities, of scientific instruments are built and to the development of scintillators, Berkeley National Laboratory, One including: Vice President of the Quebec operated in the next decades. Uniquely, photodetectors, custom integrated circuits, Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 Section; Elected Member and Vice the new open-source standards are readout electronics, imaging systems, and Phone: +1 510 486-4432; E-mail: President of Nuclear Science Group designed by a lab-industry partnership reconstruction algorithms. [email protected]. before NPSS became a Society; General to serve broad science and industrial Chair of the Nuclear Science Symposium applications worldwide. Dr. Moses’ service to the NPSS began in Citation: For outstanding contributions in San Francisco in 1975 and 1985; 1989 when he was the Assistant Guest to the Nuclear and Plasma Science Ray Larsen can be reached at SLAC member of the IEEE Standards Editor for the NSS Special Issue of IEEE Society, and especially for providing National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Committee; Technical Manager for Transactions on Nuclear Science and has new leadership, direction, organization Sand Hill Rd., Menlo Park, CA 94025. We shall... development of the FASTBUS standard since served in numerous capacities within and unif ication to the Nuclear Science Phone: +1 650 926 4907. E-mail; platform; President of NPS Society the MIC (including being the Assistant Symposium and Medical Imaging Man should be overcome. What [email protected] 1990-91, Member of the IEEE Ethics Program Chairman at the second MIC, Conferences. have you done to overcome him? Committee, chair of the NPSS Citation: For his pioneering work on which was held in 1991) and the NSS Friedrich Nietzsche Conference Policy Committee. Ray wrote new standards for Control Systems and the initial NPSS proposal for Continuing the introduction of new technologies as a Education, pioneered the first Short common platform for Physics, Nuclear and Young Investigator Award Courses in the San Francisco Chapter, Plasma applications and facilities across Physics and Engineering of the National and introduced the first poster sessions multiple Laboratories and Institutions all Konstyantyn Ilyenko Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkov, at the 1975 NSS-MIC in San Francisco, over the world. Ukraine in 2001. He is currently with the Kostyantyn Ilyenko received the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, B.S. degree in physics from Moscow where from 1993 to 1995, he was an Institute of Physics and Technology, Assistant Researcher and, since 1999, he Moscow, USSR (now Russia), in 1991, has been a Senior Research Scientist and the M.Sc. degree in theoretical physics a research group leader in the Department from Kharkov State (now National) of Vacuum Electronics, Institute for University, Kharkov, Ukraine in 1993, Radiophysics and Electronics. the D.Phil. degree in mathematics from the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Free-electron lasers/masers (FELs) in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in applied are unique sources of electromagnetic Konstyantyn Ilyenko electromagnetics of superconductors from the Institute for Low Temperature (continued on page 36)

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(continued from page 35) their three-dimensional oscillations in the beam velocity spread influence critically dispersion equation, which simultaneously To go where no man has magnetostatic field of the hybrid planar the (near) magnetoresonant regime takes into account quasielectrostatic and The bright side gone before (or woman!) radiation, whose operational principles FEL, he established an analytical but of operation of a hybrid planar FEL- quasimagnetostatic contributions. sustain generation/amplification highly quantitatively accurate condition amplifier proposed on the grounds of the Although it is a gloomy view to In 2007, Dr. Ilyenko was elevated to the Between two evils, I always pick of radiation throughout almost the of chaotization of an electron’s motion linear analysis. These developments were suppose that life will die out, Senior Member grade in the IEEE. He entire electromagnetic spectrum: as given by the Chirikov resonance- reported in Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams and the one I haven’t tried before. is the elected chair of the IEEE Societies sometimes when I contemplate from radio waves to X-ray band. It overlap criterion applied to the normal peer-reviewed national and international Mae West is then understandable that for the East Ukraine Joint Chapter for 2011. the things that people do with undulator and cyclotron frequencies with journals. In 2009 this work was selected their lives, I think it almost implementation of FEL principles of respect to the coupling induced by the for the Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams’ Kostyantyn Ilyenko can be reached at the radiation generation in different parts of undulator magnetic field. Understanding “Kaleidoscope” and is featured there. Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics of a consolation. the electromagnetic spectrum, one cannot the shortcomings of space-charge fields NAS of Ukraine, Dept Vacuum Electronics, Currently, Dr. Ilyenko is working Bertrand Russell expect similar technical and, hence, as given by the potential quasistatic part vul. Akad. Proskury, 12, Kharkiv, 61085, with a colleague to accomplish totally sometimes basic conceptual solutions. of the self-electric field, Dr. Ilyenko Ukraine; Phone: +380 57 720 3331; 3-D Green’s function modeling for In particular, a prospective high-power also proposed to use the Darwin E-mails: [email protected] and kost@ire. moderately relativistic beams in circular THz-waveband implementation of FEL model to take into account quadratic kharkov.ua cylindrical geometry. Results on the based on moderately relativistic electron in electrons’ velocities corrections to nonrelativistic part of the problem Citation: For signif icant contributions to beam requires, besides an undulator/ the self-quasielectrostatic and linear in have just been published in the IEEE nonlinear theory of beam dynamics in the wiggler array, an additional solenoidal the electrons’ velocities corrections to Transactions on Plasma Science. In a pump magnetostatic f ield of hybrid planar beam-guiding uniform magnetic field. the self-quasimagnetostatic fields (the separate collaboration, Dr. Ilyenko has free electron lasers and specif ically for the It was realized that the presence of such moderately relativistic rotational, as proposed a simple qualitative estimate asymptotically exact analytical description a field opens up an opportunity for opposed to the only potential, part of of moderately relativistic (the first of electron trajectories in the vicinity of the radiation output enhancement because of the space-charge field) of a high-current post-Newtonian, second order in the magnetoresonance and formulation of the possible effect of the magnetoresonance electron beam. These allowed one a search velocities) space-charge corrections to a beam chaotization criterion. (cyclotron frequency is near the of the most advantageous parameters of Raman (space-charge dominated) FEL undulator frequency). However, it was hybrid planar FEL-amplifier operations also shown experimentally that at the based on quantitatively accurate analytical magnetoresonance one sees an almost arguments as opposed to mere numerical complete loss of the electron beam driving simulations. The research group led Graduate Scholar Awards nitride-oxide (ONO) nonvolatile memory, such an FEL. In hybrid helical FELs a by Dr. Ilyenko showed that, in spite and modeling of X-ray-induced single solution to this problem was to reverse Michael Patrick King of the well-known drop for the exact event upsets (SEUs) in advanced SOI the direction of the uniform guide part magnetoresonance, the gain of the hybrid Michael King (Graduate Student memory elements. His research interests of the FEL magnetostatic pump field. planar FEL-amplifier attains its maximal Member, IEEE) received a B.S. degree in include radiation effects in CMOS SOI In hybrid planar geometry (which is value in the zone of regular dynamics applied mathematics from the University microelectronics, modeling of single capable of delivery of much greater slightly above the magnetoresonant of California, Los Angeles, CA in event effects (SEEs) in microelectronics, beam currents while keeping the current value of the guide magnetic field. Thus, 2007 and a M.S. degree in electrical modeling carrier transport in electron Food for thought density at acceptable levels) such a it was proposed that such a (near) engineering from Vanderbilt University, devices, and reliability of electron devices. practical solution is impossible because A spoon does not know the taste magnetoresonant regime is, if the Nashville, TN in 2011. In addition to of symmetry of electrons’ dynamics with being a member of IEEE, he is a member Michael was awarded a National Physical of soup, nor a learned fool the taste guide magnetic field permits, the most respect to the direction of the uniform preferable one for a hybrid planar FEL- of the IEEE Nuclear Plasma and Sciences Science Consortium Graduate Student of wisdom. guide magnetic field. amplifier for the THz-waveband. Society. Fellowship from Sandia National Laboratories in 2010 and the 2010 IEEE Michael Patrick King Welsh proverb Dr. Ilyenko developed an analytical It was also demonstrated analytically He is currently a Graduate Research Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects method of asymptotically exact solution that under the condition of undulator Assistant with the Radiation Effects and Conference Outstanding Student Paper to the test electron equations of motion resonance, it is practically independent of Reliability group in the Department of Award for evaluating contributions from in combined magnetostatic pump field the amplitude of the undulator magnetic Electrical Engineering and Computer secondary electrons generated in ionizing of hybrid (planar) FEL valid not only far field and the wavelength of amplified Science at Vanderbilt University. His radiation events to errors in modern SOI from the magnetoresonance but also in its signal. Numerical simulations of the work there includes radiation effects SRAMs. close vicinity until the onset of dynamic nonlinear stage of amplification verified in SOI technologies, device-level chaos. Using analytical expressions that neither inhomogeneity of undulator characterization of charge-based oxide- (continued on page 38) obtained for individual test electron magnetic field and adiabatic entrance trajectories and normal frequencies of section nor space-charge effects and initial

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(continued from page 37) voltage (> 100 kV) pulses delivered by the PET data acquisition as a function of Medicine (ISMRM) conference, May PSIRA are to be used to treat skin cancer the shielding configuration is new and 2010; The MIC-IEEE Student Paper En Garde Prashanth Kumar (melanoma). His major contribution is leading to ways to compensate for Award (worthy mention) at Nuclear Prashanth Kumar received his bachelor’s was the design of two electromagnetic this potential interference between the Science Symposium/Medical Imaging Once is happenstance, twice is degree (B.E.) in Electrical and Electronics lenses. He numerically and experimentally two systems. He is the student leader Conference, Orlando, Florida, 2009; coincidence, but three times is Engineering from the University of studied the “focusing lens,” a lens used of this project. At Brookhaven National Student Trainee Grant, IEEE Medical enemy action. Madras, India, in June 2003. He joined to focus the fast pulses onto a point. The Laboratory, simultaneous PET/MR Imaging Conference (MIC), 2008–2010; Ian Fleming the Electrical and Computer Engineering second lens was designed to launch fast, images of a rat brain and beating mouse Best Lecturer Award in Department of Department of the University of New high-voltage spherical pulses from the heart were obtained using a nonmagnetic Biomedical Engineering, J.B. Institute of Mexico (UNM), Albuquerque, in the fall antenna. PET detector designed and built at Engineering and Technology, India, 2004; BNL in our 9.4 T microMRI under Certificate of Merit Award in IEEE of 2004, where he is currently pursuing his The second part of his research involved the guidance of Sri Harsha. No visible Student’s Paper Contest, conducted by Ph.D. research. His M.S. research was on the frequency domain application of artifacts or interferences were observed on IEEE India council, Varanasi, India, 2003. Prashanth Kumar secondary electron emission and involved electromagnetic pulse technology to MR images or spectroscopy studies based identifying materials with a low secondary the generation of high-power terahertz In addition to his academic accomplish- in large part to Sri Harsha’s efforts to electron yield for use in microwave (THz) radiation for use in secure ments, he also gives a series of very define and eliminate these interactions. collectors. He received his M.S. in 2007. communications and other applications. popular lectures at the University to new From 2007-2008 he worked on the A new approach to the generation of In addition to this award he has foreign students on adapting to life in the HelCat plasma device at UNM. This THz radiation using switched oscillator received several other awards including: U.S. including cultural differences and involved configuring the firmware for the (SwO) antennas was envisoned, designed, Educational Stipend Award, International American food. control system used for plasma turbulence and optimized. He is currently working Society for Magnetic Resonance in measurements, and making basic phase toward the experimental realization of difference measurements on the HelCat such SwO antennas. device. Mr. Kumar has published several papers, Mark Wilson high-power ultrasound. His Ph.D. From 2008-2010 he worked on his Ph.D. conference proceedings, and articles project was fully sponsored by AWE Mark P. Wilson (M’10) was born in research with coadvisors Dr. Christos during the course of his research. He is Aldermaston, and involved characterizing Stranraer, U.K., in 1982. He received the Christodoulou and the late Dr. Carl E. a reviewer for the Antennas and Wireless B.Eng. (with honors) and M.Phil. degrees interfacial breakdown events associated Baum. The first part of this research Propagation Letters. He was selected as in electronic and electrical engineering with solid polymer surfaces immersed was concerned with studying a Prolate- the Outstanding Graduate Student by from the University of Strathclyde, in mineral oil, under pulse-charged Spheroidal Impulse Radiating Antenna the IEEE Albuquerque Section in 2010. Glasgow, U.K., in 2004 and 2007, conditions. Mark is presently working (PSIRA) where the fast (100 ps), high- respectively, where he is expected to as a Teaching Associate at the University graduate with the Ph.D. degree in July of Strathclyde, including supervision of 2011. He completed his M.Phil. degree undergraduate students undertaking final Sri Harsha Maamraju for Measuring Input Functions for while working on a Knowledge Transfer year projects related to pulsed power and Quantitative Small Animal PET. Partnership project cosponsored by the plasma sciences. In addition to being a Sri Harsha Maramju (Graduate Student This device would allow the measurement U.K. Department of Trade and Industry member of the IEEE, Mark is also a Mark Wilson member, IEEE) received his Bachelor of of an input function required for and NRS Technologies Ltd., designing member of the IEEE Dielectrics and Technology in Biomedical Engineering kinetic modeling without the necessity equipment to process industrial wastes Electrical Insulation Society, and the from the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological of drawing blood from the animal. into a suitable form for recycling using Institution of Engineering and Technology. University, India. His project was on the He will receive his Ph.D. in Biomedical Validation of the Transcranial Doppler Engineering from the State University (TCD) device carried out at the CARE of New York, Stony Brook, NY. His Institute, Hyderabad, India. He received Ph.D. Dissertation title is the Evaluation his Master of Science in Biomedical of Interactions Between MRI and PET Engineering from the State University Scanners for Simultaneous PET/MR of New York, Stony Brook, NY where Imaging. His work on the interactions Sri Harsha Maamraju his project was A LSO Beta Microprobe between the RF pulse sequence and the

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Measurements have been made of terahertz propagation (attenuation) through both High-Energy, Switched-Oscillator dry and moist air [5]. The frequencies of interest (minima in the attenuation curves) Terahertz Antennas are summarized in Table 1. In the presence of rain, the attenuation is slightly increased over the upper values. A frequency of approximately 0.3 THz is found to be most appropriate for transmission Prashanth Kumar over large distances [3]. Abstract—This article outlines the use of a photoconductively switched oscillator as an Terahertz-Pulse Emission from Photoconductively antenna, for generating high energy terahertz radiation, for secure communication and Switched Antennas radar applications. Arrays of switched-oscillator antenna elements are also considered. Figure 1 shows a typical pulse generation scheme using a PCSA mounted over a Index terms—Terahertz antennas, pulsed power, switched oscillator, antenna arrays substrate [2].

Prashanth Kumar Introduction Despite great scientific interest since the late 1920s, the terahertz (THz) frequency range remains one of the least tapped regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Sandwiched between infrared and optical frequencies, it has received little commercial emphasis over the years [1]. The exact definition varies among authors [1, 2] but the following definition is adopted here [3], 0.1 THz < f < 10 THz. (1) THz radiation is used in various applications such as imaging, security surveillance, spectroscopy, submillimeter astronomy, etc. In this article, the focus is on secure communication and radar applications. At present, most wireless communication is in the radio wave and microwave frequency ranges, therefore, the THz range is (a) Terahertz (THz) generation using a photo-conductive (b) Side-view of antenna and relatively secure. switch gap and an (dipole) antenna. photo-conductive switch gap mounted over substrate As frequency increases, it becomes increasingly difficult to generate radiation at usable power levels. This limitation is due to the decrease in size of the frequency-sensitive Figure 1: Schematic diagram showing THz generation using a photo-conductive elements. High-power microwave sources typically operate at hundreds of kV of charge switch; Side-view of the antenna element. Table 1: Attenuation of electromagnetic voltage, and release the stored energy in nanosecond time scales. For e.g., MATRIX waves at favorable frequencies operates at approximately 200 kV charge voltage, switching this out through a high When the PC switch gap is pumped with femtosecond optical pulses with an energy Frequency (THz) Attenuation pressure H2 switch which closes in approximately 100 ps with a radiated waveform greater than the bandgap of the semiconductor, free electrons (holes) are generated in (dB/km) lasting tens of nanoseconds [4]. This discharges a length of transmission line with one the conduction (valence) band. These carriers result in a pulsed photocurrent in the 0.08 0.3-4 end approximately open (antenna end) and the other shorted (switch end) as a quarter antenna. The antenna is designed to emit a picosecond-scale EM transient, i.e., a wave resonator. This is rather high pulsed power. Scaling this down to THz frequencies THz pulse [2]. 0.205 2-10 (mm scale) one can perhaps operate at a hundred volts or so. It is clear that the material properties of the PC switch and the antenna geometry play 0.300 4-12 One pulsed-power approach uses photoconductively (PC) switched planar antennas an important role in this scheme. In our design, hundreds of volts will be applied across 0.405 15-30 illuminated by ultra-short optical pulses. Recent advances in femtosecond lasers and the switch. The antenna is designed such that the radiated energy decays as a damped ultrafast PC semiconducting thin films have made this approach practically attractive sinusoid, i.e., the carrier lifetime of the PC switch gap material is required to be much 0.680 50-100 [2]. The use of a PC-switched oscillator as an antenna is outlined in this article. longer than the duration of the input pulse. Therefore, the PC switch material must 0.880 40-100 Compared to other sources of THz radiation, such as traveling wave tubes, backward have properties such as long carrier lifetime, high mobility and high breakdown voltage. wave oscillators, free electron lasers etc, PC-switched antennas (PCSAs) are attractive Of the currently used PC materials, SI-GaAs (semi-insulating galium arsenide) is found due to their conceptual simplicity, small size and their ability to radiate high-energy to satisfy these design constraints. It has a carrier lifetime of 50-100 ps, mobility of resonant pulses. approximately 1000 (cm2/V•s) and resistivity of 107 (Ω•cm) [2]. Frequencies for Atmospheric Transmission The Switched-Oscillator as an Antenna Communication and radar applications require transmission through the atmosphere, Having identified the frequencies required for our application and the most suitable perhaps for kilometers. While radar means radio detection and ranging, one might call technology for THz generation in the previous sections, we now proceed to the design a THz radar as a tedar (Terahertz detection and ranging). of a high-energy, pulsed-power PC-switched oscillator/antenna. (continued on page 42)

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(continued from page 41) and then quickly discharged by the photocurrent in the PC switch. Including such phenomena in numerical codes is an exciting area of research. A switched-oscillator (SwO) is an electrical, shock-excited resonant structure (e.g., a transmission line). The excitation may come in the form of the discharge of some slowly The switched oscillator may also be used to drive planar antennas such as the zig-zag, charged capacitance through a fast closing switch. The waveform delivered to the load is meander, or serpentine, antennas shown in Fig. 5 [7]. Numerical results similar to those characterized by one or more damped sinusoids [6]. in Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 were also obtained for a zig-zag antenna [8]. Here we adapt the SwO as the planar antenna in Fig. 1. As the most basic formulation Arrays of Terahertz Antennas of the problem, consider the setup shown in Fig. 2, where the SwO is operated, in a Antenna geometries, described in the previous section, can be used in array configura- differential form, as a half-wave microstrip resonator to maximize the energy in the tions to increase the directivity and power of the radiated beam. Charging, switching and radiated pulse. mutual coupling between elements are some of the important considerations relevant to The width of the SwO is (arbitrarily) chosen as a quarter wavelength to reduce skin arrays of PC-switched antennas. effect losses without introducing other modes of oscillation. The PC switch gap, /25, Figure 2: Schematic of a switched is kept small to minimally perturb the SwO. The SwO is mounted on a substrate, oscillator mounted over a substrate.   of relative permittivity r=3.0, of height /8. A ground plane below the substrate ensures the radiation is confined to the +z direction (see Fig. 2 for the coordinate system). Our primary aim is to maximize the radiated electric field at the desired resonant frequency. Note that  corresponds to the wavelength in the dielectric. The structure in Fig. 2 was simulated in CST Microwave Studio®1, a commercially available finite integration time domain (FITD) electromagnetic software. In the simulations, the SwO is assumed to be a perfect electric conductor (PEC) and the substrate dielectric material is assumed to be lossless and dispersionless. The SwO  dimensions are determined for a free space wavelength of 0=500 μm corresponding to a (resonant) frequency of 0.5 THz. The wavelength  in the substrate is  (a) 3D electric field radiation pattern from (b) 2D E-plane electric-field radiation pattern 0/√3.0=346.1 μm. A 1 V, ramp rising excitation, with a 0.1 ps rise time, was applied SwO antenna at 0.4 THz. between the switch gap. An electric field probe, oriented in the +y direction, at a distance (=90˚) at 0.4 THz. of 1 cm from the origin on the z-axis, was used to monitor the electric fields radiated by the antenna. Figure 4: Electric field radiation patterns from SwO at the resonant frequency, 0.4 THz. The electric field waveform is shown in Fig. 3(a). The damped sinusoidal electric field profile decays to zero in approximately 50 ps, and is one of the reasons SI-GaAs was (a) Electric field, Ey, response from far-field chosen as the PC switch material. SI-GaAs has a sufficiently long carrier lifetime, (a) Zig-zag antenna probe at 1 cm from the origin on the z-axis. 50-100 ps, which ensures the photocurrent decays completely before the next input pulse. The Fourier transform of the electric field indicates a resonance at 0.4 THz, Fig. 3(b). The radiation pattern is dipole-like, as shown in Fig. 4. Note that while the dimensions were determined for a frequency of 0.5 THz, the SwO (b) Meander antenna is found to resonate at 0.4 THz. While previous researchers have focused on generating a single transient pulse [2], the pulse radiated from a SwO antenna is of a much longer duration. This results in roughly an order of magnitude increase in the energy in the pulse. The idealized setup of the SwO presented above only serves as a starting point. (b) Fourier transform of the electric field, (c) Serpentine antenna Ey, response from the far-field probe Parameters such as substrate thickness, substrate permittivity, switch gap and skin losses need to be thoroughly studied and optimized in order to maximize the radiated energy, Figure 3: Electric field response and its Q (quality factor) and voltage standoff. Of course, once the antenna is known to resonate Fourier transform. at some frequency, the dimensions can be rescaled to resonate at any desired frequency. In the final design, the antenna will initially be charged by some external voltage source, Figure 5: Zig-zag, meander and serpentine antenna geometries that could be used in conjunction with the SwO antenna [7]. 1http://www.cst.com (continued on page 44)

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(continued from page 43) Acknowledgments The author would like to thank Prof. C. E. Baum, Prof. C. G. Christodoulou, Prof. E. As an example, consider the row of the SwO elements shown in Fig. 6. The distributed Schamiloglu and Kenneth McDonald for useful discussions. This research is supported switch is used to charge all the elements simultaneously. For really fast charging (high by Sci-Eng Solutions, LLC. repetition rate), one requires the voltage across this switch remain uniform during each charging cycle. The slots help suppress the currents in the x-direction during the References oscillation period. The mutual coupling between individual elements must be considered [1] P. H. Siegel, “Terahertz Technology”, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory Figure 6: Row of SwO elements [9]. while optimizing such a configuration [9]. and Techniques, Vol. 50, No. 3, March 2002

Now consider the array of rows of distributed elements as shown in Fig. 7, where Vch [2] Kiyomi Sakai (ed.), Terahertz Optoelectronics, Springer, 2005. is the charging voltage and Rch is the charging resistance. The rows are somewhat Bet on it! continuous, but the columns are discrete. [3] C. E. Baum, P. Kumar, S. Altunc, K. F. McDonald, C. G. Christodoulou, E. Schamiloglu, “Choice of Frequencies for THz Atmospheric Transmission”, A throw of the dice will never Arrays of other antenna geometries can be formed in a similar manner [7]. Terahertz Memos, Memo 02, October 2009 The “Terahertz Flashlight” eliminate chance. [4] W. D. Prather, C. E. Baum, R. J. Torres, F. Sabath and D. Nitsch, “Survery Focusing reflectors (or lenses) can be used together with antenna arrays to propagate of Worldwide High-Power Wideband Capabilities”, IEEE Transactions on Stephane Mallarme a THz beam over large distances. For example, consider the commonly used telescope Electromagnetic Compatibility, Vol. 46, No. 3, August 2004 design (in optical and radio telescopes) known as a Cassegrain antenna. This might take [5] R. W. McMillan, “Terahertz Imaging, Millimeter-Wave Radar”, Jim Byrnes (ed.), the simple form shown in Fig. 8, where D is the antenna aperture. A (relatively) small Advances in Sensing with Security Applications, Springer, 2006, pp. 243-268 source array propagates an approximate plane wave toward a secondary reflector which converts the wave into a spherical form to be converted into a large diameter plane wave. [6] C. E. Baum, “Switched Oscillators”, Circuit and Electromagnetic System Design Such a configuration looks like a “flashlight”. A propagation distance of approximately Notes, Note 45, September, 2000 800 m can be achieved with D = 0.5 m before the beam diverges significantly [10]. [7] C. E. Baum, P. Kumar and S. Altunc, “Arrays of Zig-Zag Antennas Driven by Conclusions Switched Oscillators”, Sensor and Simulation Notes, Note 542, August 2009 Figure 7: Array of rows of distributed A THz PC-switched oscillator has been demonstrated as an antenna capable of [8] M. E. Shaik, C. E. Baum and C. G. Christodoulou, “Integrated Switch Oscillator elements [9]. radiating high-energy resonant picosecond-scale pulses. Basic numerical simulations and Zig-zag Antenna with Photoconductive Semiconductor Switch as a Terahertz confirm that the radiated electric field decays as a damped sinusoid, with a dominant (THz) Pulse Transmitter”, Sensor and Simulation Notes, Note 541, July 2009 frequency of 0.4 THz, and that the radiation pattern is dipole-like. An array of SwO antenna elements can be used to increase the directivity and radiated power. [9] C. E. Baum, P. Kumar and S. Altunc, “Line-Source Switched-Oscillator Antenna”, Sensor and Simulation Notes, Note 551, February 2010 This article has considered the design of an antenna as a THz transmitter. For communication systems, one also needs to receive the THz bursts in a manner which [10] C. E. Baum “From Small THz Arrays to Large Antenna Aperatures for THz retrieves the information contained in a string of such pulses. Besides the antenna Beams Propagating to Large Distances: The THz Flashlight”, Sensor and problem, there are the rectifying diodes to down-convert the THz waves into more Simulation Notes, Note 549, August 2009 traditional microwave frequencies. Nevertheless, the approach to the design of a PC- switched oscillator antenna described in this article presents an exciting area of research Prashanth Kumar is one of this year’s Graduate Scholar awardees and his biography may be and has great potential for use in secure communication and radar applications. found on page 38 in the AWARDS section.

Figure 8: Cassegrain THz antenna [10]. Well, hardly ever

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superconducting magnets. The linac will radiation tests on its electronic hardware Facility for Rare Isotope Beams be folded twice in order to save space and accelerators have been built for cancer and reduce the costs of civil construction therapy treatments. What will come of associated with digging tunnels. the new power of FRIB, however, nobody knows for sure. Keeping these cavities and magnets cold will be a large cryogenic plant capable Aside from the technical obstacles, there of cooling each individual element while is another challenge associated with pumping roughly 17,000 liters of liquid FRIB—teaching others about the science helium at temperatures below 4˚K. and technology at the laboratory. While NSCL has a host of traditional outreach Aside from the SRF cavities and Konrad Gelbke programs designed to do this including NSCL and FRIB Laboratory Director cryogenics system, there are several tours, brochures, videos, open houses, challenging programs underway to deliver presentations and the like, FRIB has the equipment necessary to meet the added a more innovative approach. system’s design criteria, many of which Lehman Review Participants. Thomas Glassmacher are being conducted in close collaboration They have made a rap video! Project Director with other laboratories around the The FRIB Project’s leadership hired or more than 30 years, the National 400 kW. The accelerated ions will strike country. A new liquid lithium stripping MSU Alumnus Kate McAlpine to F Superconducting Cyclotron a solid target producing large quantities system to create highly charged ions is create a rap video that explains the Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State of rare isotopes that will be filtered by the being developed with Argonne National science behind FRIB. It’s not as crazy as University (MSU) has been a world-class fragment separator into beam lines and Laboratory. Research is being conducted it sounds; Kate’s earlier production of a facility for the study of nuclear physics delivered to experimental halls for study. at Sandia National Laboratories to rap video about the ATLAS experiment and – for two decades – a leader in the confirm simulations and calculations for Much is being done at MSU to ensure at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, production of rare isotopes to conduct a a rotating target that can withstand the the successful delivery of FRIB as well Switzerland has had more than 5 million wide array of basic and applied research. beam’s power while creating rare isotopes. as to prepare the laboratory. Although views, making it the #7 most favorite Home of the world’s first superconducting And a beam dump capable of absorbing FRIB will subsume the beam delivery and #14 most viewed of all-time in the cyclotron, the laboratory always has the energy not deposited in the target system and some of the existing Science and Technology category. She pushed forward the frontiers of nuclear that was conceptualized at Oak Ridge experimental equipment at the NSCL wrapped up the project in the summer science. Now, backed by funding from the National Laboratory is being further when it is completed, more devices are of 2009 and did not disappoint. Department of Energy Office of Science engineered and built on-site at MSU. (DOE-SC) MSU is moving the field being planned in order to fully utilize When all is said and done, FRIB will The “Rare Isotope Rap” has more than forward once again. the capabilities of the new facility. provide 400 billion nuclei per second 60,000 views and counting on YouTube. On June 8, 2009, MSU signed a For example, the ReA3 reaccelerator will traveling up to 57 percent of the speed What’s more, a short five-minute documentary about the making of the cooperative agreement with the Office take rare isotopes that have been cooled of light for fragmentation collisions. Rare Isotope Rap LYRICS of Science to design and establish the to a near stop and reaccelerate them to That is four times the nuclei available video that was filmed and produced by They’re building FRIB with mysteries Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), energies pertinent to nuclear astrophysics for fragmentation at NSCL. Add to MSU Telecommunication Information to solve a new world-leading facility for the study and nuclear structure studies. In nuclear that the fact that FRIB will accelerate Studies and Media (TISM) faculty of the physics of atomic nuclei. Currently astrophysics, the possibility will emerge to these 400 billion nuclei to twice the member Troy Hale recently won a CINE Like what reactions drive stars and under design, the DOE-SC national user measure key reactions more precisely and energy (MeV/u) of those at NSCL and Golden Eagle Award. This achievement how do they evolve New Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. facility will cost about $600 million to directly at near-stellar energies. Nuclear it becomes clear how experiments that is an industry-recognized “mark of The strong force binds nuclei but we design and establish. 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Bruno Soares-Gonçalves ATCA is the most promising architecture to substantially enhance the performance esearchers from IPFN (Instituto and capability of existing standard systems R de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, If you can... as it is designed to handle tasks such as Lisbon) and SLAC National Accelerator event building, feature extraction and Laboratory participated, from 14-16 Repent what’s past; avoid what is high level trigger processing. It is the first March, in a first joint meeting with commercial open standard designed for to come. researchers from the European Spallation high throughput as well as availability Shakespeare Source-Bilbao (ESS-B). The meeting (HA). The high throughput features aim was to discuss the collaboration to are of great interest to data acquisition Bruno Soares-Gonçalves develop control and data acquisition physics, while the HA features are systems and instrumentation for this new attractive for experiments requiring a very experiment. The collaboration between high up-time. The ATCA standard was the teams results from a Memorandum originally conceived to specify a carrier- of Understanding signed in the beginning Bernabé Unda, Basque Counselor for Industry; Bruno Soares-Gonçalves, IPFN Lisbon; Paxti LÓpez, Basque grade-based system infrastructure for of the year. Prime Minister, Ray Larsen and Bob Hettel, SLAC at ESS-B Collaboration Meeting. telecommunications. It was built from This research center, supported by the the ground up to support a range of IPFN has been pioneer in the for precision synchronization and timing; Spanish national administration and processors. The ATCA carrier-blade form development of ATCA systems for and true functional hardware-software the Basque regional administration factor supports well-balanced systems, fusion experiments, such as JET, interoperability of the same type required is dedicated to the scientific and delivering TOPS of processing power ISTTOK, COMPASS, W7-X and by the Telecom industry that developed technological development of light-ion in a single sub-rack. The architecture is TCA-Br, and has an ongoing contract ATCA. It is also expected that open- accelerators and their applications. flexible as to the types of processors that with ITER to develop a prototype Fast source ATCA standards can take interop- The Bilbao machine has been designed can coexist in the system. One of the Plant System Controller based on this erability of modular systems to a new level to be compliant with ESS specifications most critical aspects of implementing standard. The diversification of the fields not found in any competing standard. following the international guidelines the ATCA architecture is the ability of of application of ATCA is a crucial step The Intelligent Platform Management for such projects. The new accelerator high-performance blades to communicate for the recognition of ATCA as a full Interface (IPMI) is another key differen- facility in Bilbao will serve as a base for with each other, so that vast quantities of physics standard. tiator of ATCA. This tool manages the support of activities in accelerator physics data can be moved from board to board system health enabling high availability by carried out in the framework of several through the switch fabric within an SLAC researchers have been the driv- predicting faults as well as signaling the ongoing international collaborations ATCA system. The ATCA platform is ing force behind PICMG xTCA for need for switchover and hot-swap. (CERN, IFMIF/EVEDA, ESRF, ISIS, gaining traction in the physics community Physics Coordinating Committee. This XFEL, EUROTRANS, ISOL-like, because of its advanced communication committee was formalized in March During the meeting in Bilbao, the etc.). Also, a number of applications bus architecture (serial gigabit replacing 2009 as a PICMG Technical Subcom- researchers from both delegations were Static have been envisaged in the new Bilbao parallel buses), high availability, n+1 mittee called the xTCA for Physics received by members of the Basque Local How’s this for an insult? facility for the outgoing light ion beams redundancy, variety of form factors, very Coordinating Committee. In late May government: the local government prime- I wish they [opera singers] as well as from fast neutrons produced high data throughput options and its 2009 independent Working Groups for minister, (“lehendakari” Patxi López) Stupid, stupid, stupid. If they’d would stand still and sing, or just by low-energy neutron-capture targets. suitability for real-time applications. Hardware and Software were chartered as and the Counselors for the Education had a brain they would have and Industry, Isabel Celaá and Bernabé stand still. The baseline design for the ESS-Bilbao Active programs are showing up most PICMG Technical Subcommittees. Such been idiots. light-ion linear accelerator and neutron notably at DESY for XFEL and JET but a committee formalizes the collabora- Unda. The local government members Edwin Hubble source has been completed and the also at other laboratories such as ILC, tion between laboratories and industry to reinforced the support of the Basque Charlie Finley normal conducting section of the linac IHEP, KEK, SLAC, FNAL, ANL, BNL, achieve broad sharing of information and government for the ESS-B project as is at present under construction. FAIR, ATLAS at CERN, AGATA, large interchangeability of module designs. The well as the importance of international Both IPFN and SLAC have strong telescopes and also Ocean Observatories. goal of this lab-industry collaboration is collaborations with research institutions communities committed to the CERN is also investigating ATCA to provide additional ATCA advantages and companies. development of ATCA systems and solutions for future upgrades and ITER is for physics found in no existing standard, Bruno Soares-Gonçalves can be reached at believe that this new project can be a setting up prototype experiments to test namely multigigabit serial backplanes, rear Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Av. unique opportunity to build an entire its potential. Most of these programs put panel IO for hot-swap—absolutely key to Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal; ATCA/microTCA-based experiment. the emphasis on high availability. high availability, backplane distribution E-mail: [email protected]

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