IVEC 2012 - 2012 IEEE Thirteenth International Vacuum Electronics Conference(IVEC)

We are pleased to announce that the Thirteenth International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC) will be combined with the Ninth International Vacuum Electron Sources Conference (IVESC) and will be held in Monterey, California on April 24-26, 2012. The meeting will be held at the Monterey Conference Center at the Portola Hotel and Spa under the sponsorship of the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS). Visitors from around the world come to Monterey to experience its natural coastal beauty, visit its renowned Monterey Bay Aquarium, and experience its rich historic past memorialized in the novels of John Steinbeck.

IVEC was originally created in 2000 by merging the US Power Tube Conference and the European Space Agency TWTA Workshop, and has now expanded to a fully international conference, being held every other year in the US, and in Europe and Asia alternately every fourth year. Recent conferences were held in Rome, Italy in 2009, Monterey, CA in 2010, and Bangalore, India in 2011. You can learn more about IVEC by visiting VacuumElectronics.org, the EDS Vacuum Electronics Technical Committee website.

IVESC was inaugurated as the Tri-Service Cathode Workshop in 1978, becoming the Tri-Service/NASA Cathode Workshop in 1990 and continuing until 1996 (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) when it, too, was expanded into the international conference it is now. At that time it changed emphasis to encompass a greater variety of vacuum electron sources. Since, then, it has grown into a successful biennial international conference meeting sequentially in the USA, Europe, and Asia. It was most recently in held in Nanjing, China, in 2010.

The joint IVEC-IVESC 2012 Conference at Monterey, CA, reprising the joint IVEC-IVESC 2006 Conference will provide an expanded presence in the key area of cathode and gun technology and will offer attendees the opportunity to learn about recent advances in electron emission physics (e.g., thermal, field, secondary, and photoemission) and electron source technologies in greater depth.

Plenary talks will provide insights into the history, the broad spectrum of fundamental physics, the scientific issues and the technological applications driving the current directions in vacuum electronics research. Technical presentations will range from the fundamental physics of electron emission and modulated electron beams to the design and operation of devices at UHF to THz frequencies, theory and computational tool development, active and passive components, systems, and supporting technologies.

System developers will find that IVEC-IVESC provides a unique snapshot of the current state-of-the-art in vacuum electron devices. These devices continue to provide unmatched power and performance for advanced electromagnetic systems, particularly in the challenging frequency regimes of millimeter-wave and THz electronics.

We invite you to submit papers on your work and experiences in vacuum electronics and electron sources. The meeting will efficiently disseminate useful information to device users, manufacturers, academics, and students. We encourage submission of papers from all groups.

The John R. Pierce Award for Excellence in Vacuum Electronics, the George V. Miram Award for Achievement in Cathode Research, and a Student Paper Award will be presented at the conference. As in past conferences, the meeting and social events will provide unique opportunities to renew or establish new friendships with colleagues, interact with customers and end-users, and meet students and academic researchers.

We hope to see you all at IVEC-IVESC 2012.

Sincerely,

The IVEC-IVESC 2012 Organizing Committee