Compact High Power Microwave Payloads

Fractal Meta Material (FMM) will be used to develop FEG working bodies based on the state-of-art ferroelectric material such as PZT 95/5 to experimentally establish their first order device characteristics. During this effort, a demonstration will be conducted of this new ferroelectric meta material by means of explosive testing. The goal is a highly producible ferroelectric meta material capable of generating an electric pulse with an enriched frequency spectrum without the need for separate modulator in FEG-based HPM payloads. In addition, ferroelectric meta material will provide superior hold-off field strength in presence of explosive shock loads and high electrical energy extraction efficiency. Once completed, this effort will provide a mechanism for research and understanding of advanced FMM structures as well as insight into how to design and optimize these structures performance for FEG-based high energy applications. This research is expected to be the basis for a new category of compact, inexpensive, highly producible ferroelectric meta-materials FEG devices and munitions.