The Microwave Sources for EPR Spectroscopy, Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2017, nr 2

Rapid development of many scientific and technical disciplines, especially in material science and material engineering increases a demand for quick, accurate and cheap techniques of materials investigations. The EPR spectroscopy meets these requirements and it is used in many fields of science including biology, chemistry and physics. For proper work, the EPR spectrometer needs a microwave source, which are reviewed in this paper. Vacuum tubes as well as semiconductor generators are presented such as magnetron, klystron, traveling wave tube, backward wave oscillator, orotron, gyrotron, Gunn and IMPATT diodes. In this paper main advantages of gyrotron usage, such as stability and an increased spectral resolution in application to EPR spectroscopy is discussed. The most promising and reliable microwave source is suggested

A simulation of thinning of microphone array in near-field broadband beamformers

This paper is devoted to the problem of designing an optimal microphone matrix. We define a criterion function where the performance of our matrix should be as close as possible to the desired one based on L2 norm. In the classical approach, increasing a size of the matrix is used to improve the system performance. However, in many cases it is not a good solution. In this paper we propose a solution based on thinning technique. We work with rectangular, equispaced microphone matrix and using metaheuristic approach called simulated annealing we optimise the set of active microphones (we switch off some of the microphones from the regular matrix). For illustrations, few numerical examples are solved. Comparing to the classical approach we show that thinning microphone matrix can significantly improve system performance