Professor Kevin Ronald
Physics
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European Physical Society Recipient 2012 Member APS Division of Plasma Physics Recipient 2005 Member of the IEEE Recipient 2004 Member of the IoP, Chartered Physicist Recipient 1992
Prize And Awards
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A high-k mm-wave scattering diagnostic for measuring binormal wavenumber electron scale turbulence on MAST-U Speirs D C, Ronald K, Phelps A D R, Vann R, Huggard P G, Wang H, Hall-Chen V H, Field A 2022 15th UK-Europe-China Workshop on Millimetre-Waves and Terahertz Technologies (UCMMT) 2022 15th UK-Europe-China Workshop on Millimetre-Waves and Tetrahertz Technologies (UCMMT) 2022 15th UK-Europe-China Workshop on Millimetre-Waves and Terahertz Technologies (UCMMT), pp. 1-2 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1109/ucmmt56896.2022.9994837 Multi-scale behavior of Langmuir turbulence during ionospheric heating experiments Eliasson Bengt, Ronald Kevin, Phelps Alan, Bingham Robert 2022 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (2022) Structure formation and radiation from ionospheric Langmuir turbulence Eliasson Bengt, Ronald Kevin, Phelps Alan, Bingham Robert, Rietveld M, Senior Andrew 2nd International Conference on Plasma Theory and Simulations, pp. 4 (2022) Design and characterisation of a helicon apparatus for investigations of parametric instabilities in magnetised plasma Wilson K, Selman L, Whyte C, MacInnes P, Young A, Phelps A, Cross A, Zhang L, Eliasson B, Speirs D, Robertson C, Ronald K, Cairns A, Koepke M, Bingham R, Bamford R 2022 IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS) (2022) https://doi.org/10.1109/icops45751.2022.9813143 Progress on a 71-76 GHz TWT Robertson Craig W, Cross Adrian W, Gilmour Christopher, Dyson David, Huggard Peter G, Cahill Fiachra, Beardsley Mat, Harris Michael, Dionisio Roberto, Ronald Kevin 2021 22nd International Vacuum Electronics Conference, IVEC 2021 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1109/ivec51707.2021.9722496 Self-insulation of a high-power Cherenkov oscillator, operating in the X-Band MacInnes Philip, Ronald Kevin, Phelps Alan DR, Cooke Simon J, Chernyavskiy Igor A 2020 IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science 47th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS), pp. 181-181 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1109/icops37625.2020.9717428
Publications
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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 Laboratory modelling of plasma waves excitation and transformation to electromagnetic emission in a mirror-confined plasma Contributor 28/1/2021 Brillouin scattering during ionospheric beat wave heating: EISCAT observations and numerical modelling results Contributor 28/1/2021
Design and simulation of high power (0.5MW to 1MW), high efficiency (>55%), single frequency Surface Wave Source operating in the 70GHz to 170GHz frequency range Ronald, Kevin (Principal Investigator) MacLachlan, Amy Jane (Research Co-investigator) 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2023 INNOVATE SMART Award TMD Novel Ka band TWT design and development v2B Ronald, Kevin (Principal Investigator) 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2023 Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Higgins, Mark Eliasson, Bengt (Principal Investigator) Ronald, Kevin (Co-investigator) Higgins, Mark (Research Co-investigator) 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2025 Cockcroft Phase 4 McKenna, Paul (Principal Investigator) Cross, Adrian (Co-investigator) Hidding, Bernhard (Co-investigator) McNeil, Brian (Co-investigator) Ronald, Kevin (Co-investigator) Sheng, Zheng-Ming (Co-investigator) 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2025 DC power supply to drive W-band gyrotron travelling wave amplifier for satellite uplink and wireless telecommunication applications Donaldson, Craig (Researcher) Cross, Adrian (Principal Investigator) Ronald, Kevin (Co-investigator) 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2020 DC power supply to drive W-band gyrotron travelling wave amplifier for satellite uplink and wireless telecommunication applications Cross, Adrian (Principal Investigator) Ronald, Kevin (Co-investigator) 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2020