
Professor Alan Phelps
Emeritus Professor
Physics
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Prize And Awards
- HPEM Fellow of the SUMMA Foundation
- Recipient
- 30/8/2018
- IEEE Plasma Science and Applications (PSAC) Award 2017
- Recipient
- 24/5/2017
- Fellow of the American Physical Society
- Recipient
- 2011
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE)
- Recipient
- 1997
- Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP)
- Recipient
- 1993
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Publications
- Efficient 94GHz Cherenkov radiation source with a multistage energy recovery system
- MacLachlan Amy J, Zhang Liang, Konoplev Ivan V, Phelps Alan D R, Robertson Craig W, MacInnes Philip, Whyte Colin G, Ronald Kevin, Cross Adrian W, Henderson Mark A
- 2025 26th International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC) 2025 26th International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), pp. 1-3 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ivec63678.2025.11115321
- Cherenkov THz demonstrator with multistage depressed collector driven by oversized annular electron beam : concept and first steps toward experiment
- Konoplev IV, MacLachlan AJ, Zhang Liang, Rowley C, Young L, Bartley E, Ronald K, Phelps ADR, Lewtas H
- 2025 Photonics North (PN) 2025 Photonics North (PN) Photonics North (PN) Proceedings Vol 2025 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/pn66844.2025.11097165
- Simulation and analysis of a high-k electron-scale turbulence diagnostic for MAST-U
- Speirs DC, Ruiz Ruiz J, Giacomin M, Hall-Chen VH, Phelps ADR, Vann R, Huggard PG, Wang H, Field A, Ronald K
- Nuclear Fusion Vol 65 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/adb761
- Millimetre wave super pulses mediated by multidimensional structured surfaces
- MacLachlan A J, Phelps A D R, Robertson C W, MacInnes P, Whyte C G, Ronald K
- Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion Vol 66 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/ad8fd0
- Overview of physics results from MAST upgrade towards core-pedestal-exhaust integration
- Harrison J R, Aboutaleb A, Ahmed S, Aljunid M, Allan S Y, Anand H, Andrew Y, Appel L C, Ash A, Ashton J, Bachmann O, Barnes M, Barrett B, Baver D, Beckett D, Bennett J, Berkery J, Bernert M, Boeglin W, Bowman C, Bradley J, Brida D, Browning P K, Brunetti D, Bryant P, Bryant J, Buchanan J, Bulmer N, Carruthers A, Cecconello M, Chen Z P, Clark J, Cowley C, Coy M, Crocker N, Cunningham G, Cziegler I, Da Assuncao T, Damizia Y, Davies P, Day I E, Derks G L, Dixon S, Doyle R, Dreval M, Dunne M, Duval B P, Eagles T, Edmond J, El-Haroun H, Elmore S D, Enters Y, Faitsch M, Federici F, Fedorczak N, Felici F, Field A R, Fitzgerald M, Fitzgerald I, Fitzpatrick R, Frassinetti L, Fuller W, Gahle D, Galdon-Quiroga J, Garzotti L, Gee S, Gheorghiu T, Gibson S, Gibson K J, Giroud C, Greenhouse D, Hall-Chen V H, Ham C J, Harrison R, Henderson S S, Hickling C, Hnat B, Howlett L, Hughes J, Hussain R, Imada K, Jacquet P, Jepson P, Kandan B, Katramados I, Kazakov Y O, King D, King R, Kirk A, Knolker M, Kochan M, Kogan L, Kool B, Kotschenreuther M, Lees M, Leonard A W, Liddiard G, Lipschultz B, Liu Y Q, Lomanowski B A, Lonigro N, Lore J, Lovell J, Mahajan S, Maiden F, Man-Friel C, Mansfield F, Marsden S, Martin R, Mazzi S, McAdams R, McArdle G, McClements K G, McClenaghan J, McConville D, McKay K, McKnight C, McKnight P, McLean A, McMillan B F, McShee A, Measures J, Mehay N, Michael C A, Militello F, Morbey D, Mordijck S, Moulton D, Myatra O, Nelson A O, Nicassio M, O'Mullane M G, Oliver H JC, Ollus P, Osborne T, Osborne N, Parr E, Parry B, Patel B S, Payne D, Paz-Soldan C, Phelps A, Piron L, Piron C, Prechel G, Price M, Pritchard B, Proudfoot R, Reimerdes H, Rhodes T, Richardson P, Riquezes J, Rivero-Rodriguez J F, Roach C M, Robson M, Ronald K, Rose E, Ryan P, Ryan D, Saarelma S, Sabbagh S, Sarwar R, Saunders P, Sauter O, Scannell R, Schuett T, Seath R, Sharma R, Shi P, Sieglin B, Simmonds M, Smith J, Smith A, Soukhanovskii V A, Speirs D, Staebler G, Stephen R, Stevenson P, Stobbs J, Stott M, Stroud C, Tame C, Theiler C, Thomas-Davies N, Thornton A J, Tobin M, Vallar M, Vann R GL, Velarde L, Verhaegh K, Viezzer E, Vincent C, Voss G, Warr M, Wehner W, Wiesen S, Wijkamp T A, Wilkins D, Williams T, Wilson T, Wilson H R, Wong H, Wood M, Zamkovska V
- Nuclear Fusion Vol 64 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ad6011
- Sub-THz and THz Cherenkov radiation source with two-dimensional periodic surface lattice and multistage depressed collector
- MacLachlan Amy J, Zhang Liang, Konoplev Ivan V, Phelps Alan D R, Robertson Craig W, MacInnes Philip, Whyte Colin G, Ronald Kevin, Cross Adrian W, Henderson Mark A
- Scientific Reports Vol 14 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-74374-9
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Professional Activities
- 14th UK-Europe-China Workshop on Millimetre Waves and THz Technologies (UCMMT 2021)
- Organiser
- 13/9/2021
- Ionospheric Beat-Wave Brillouin Scattering at EISCAT
- Contributor
- 12/9/2021
- Generation of Electron Cyclotron Microwave Emissions in a Mirror Discharge,
- Contributor
- 12/9/2021
- International e-Conference on Recent Trends in Plasma Physics
- Contributor
- 19/5/2021
- International School on Physics and Allied Disciplines - 2021
- Contributor
- 9/3/2021
- Brillouin scattering during ionospheric beat wave heating: EISCAT observations and numerical modelling results
- Contributor
- 28/1/2021
Projects
- Sheet electron beam vacuum electronic devices for the generation of high power THz radiation
- Cross, Adrian (Principal Investigator) He, Wenlong (Co-investigator) Phelps, Alan (Co-investigator) Zhang, Liang (Research Co-investigator)
- 05-Jan-2019 - 04-Jan-2021
- Microwave emission due to kinetic instabilities in an overdense mirror-confined plasma (International Exchanges Cost Share 2018 - Russia)
- Eliasson, Bengt (Principal Investigator) Bingham, Robert (Co-investigator) Phelps, Alan (Co-investigator) Ronald, Kevin (Co-investigator) Speirs, David (Co-investigator)
- 10-Jan-2018 - 09-Jan-2022
- Multiscale turbulent dynamics of tokamak plasmas (EPSRC Turbulence Centre)
- Ronald, Kevin (Principal Investigator) Phelps, Alan (Co-investigator) Speirs, David (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 30-Jan-2024
- Dispersive Pulse Compressors
- Ronald, Kevin (Principal Investigator) Phelps, Alan (Co-investigator) Young, Alan (Research Co-investigator)
- 30-Jan-2018 - 29-Jan-2019
- Compact high-power microwave oscillators (NICOP)
- Phelps, Alan (Principal Investigator) Ronald, Kevin (Co-investigator) MacInnes, Philip (Researcher)
- 15-Jan-2018 - 14-Jan-2022
- Parametric Wave Coupling and Non-Linear Mixing in Plasma
- Ronald, Kevin (Principal Investigator) Bingham, Robert (Co-investigator) Eliasson, Bengt (Co-investigator) Phelps, Alan (Co-investigator) MacInnes, Philip (Research Co-investigator) Speirs, David (Researcher) Whyte, Colin (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2020
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Contact
Professor
Alan
Phelps
Emeritus Professor
Physics
Email: a.d.r.phelps@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted