2004 IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC)
The Fifth International Vacuum Electronics
Conference (IVEC 2004) is returning to the picturesque city of
Monterey, California April 27-29, 2004. The meeting will be held
at the Monterey Conference Center at the Doubletree Hotel under
the sponsorship of the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS). Dr.
Dan M. Goebel of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory will serve
as the General Chair, and Dr. Carol L. Kory of CCR and Analex
Corp/NASA GRC will serve as Technical Program Chair. The EDS Technical
Committee on Vacuum Devices provides oversight of the conference;
an international committee chaired by Dr. James Dayton, Jr.
Since its inception in 2000, IVEC has become the premier international
venue for presentations in the field of vacuum electronics. IVEC
2004 continues the tradition of the U.S. "Power-Tube"
Conference in Monterey, which has become the US home of IVEC,
in providing a forum for presentation and discussion of topics
on vacuum devices, vacuum microelectronics, applications of vacuum
devices, and the theory and technological developments of vacuum
electron devices. IVEC meets in the U.S. every other year and
in Europe and Asia alternately every fourth year. A highlight
of the meeting will be the presentation of the IVEC Award for
Excellence in Vacuum Electronics, given at the conference banquet.
Complete details about the meeting and this award can be found
on the conference web site at http://www.ivec2004.org.
The IVEC 2004 conference will begin with a half-day plenary session
followed by two and a half days of oral and poster sessions. Two
page abstracts for IVEC 2004 should be submitted electronically
to Mr. Ralph Nadell of Palisades Convention Management at Rnadell@pmc411.com
by January 5, 2004. Information on the preparation and submission
of the abstracts can be found on the conference web site.
The 2004 conference will open with three plenary talks reviewing
government supported educational research programs in the US,
Europe and Asia. The plenary session will continue with four invited
talks on the theme of "High-Frequency Technology". The
conference will then transition into presentations of contributed
papers on a variety of topics related to vacuum electron devices
for the next two and a half days in three parallel oral sessions
and two poster sessions. Papers will include presentations on
a wide range of classic vacuum devices, including traveling wave
tubes, crossed field devices, klystrons, inductive output tubes,
fast wave devices, free electron lasers, pulse compression devices,
high pulsed power devices, plasma filled amplifiers, triodes,
tetrodes, pentodes and switches. In the area of vacuum microelectronics,
IVEC is seeking papers on microwave and millimeter wave devices,
displays, sensors, field emitter arrays and microwave devices.
Under systems and subsystems, IVEC is including component parts
(guns, collectors etc.), microwave power modules, electronic power
conditioners, power supplies, linearizers, amplifier/antenna coupling,
device and subsystem integration, reliability and life. Under
the heading of theory and technologies, IVEC is seeking papers
on computer analysis and modeling, novel materials, electron emission,
RF and high voltage breakdown, linearity, intermodulation, noise,
measurement techniques, miniaturization and thermal control.
The IVEC 2004 conference is organized by a Program Committee made
up of representatives of government, industry and university researchers.
Members of the 2004 program committee are listed above.
Dan M. Goebel
General Chairman
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA, USA