The Fifth International Vacuum
Electronics Conference (IVEC 2004) is returning to the picturesque
city of Monterey, California on 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. Oversight
of the conference is provided by the EDS Technical Committee
on Vacuum Devices; 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@pcm411.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 session 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.
