
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
- 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
- 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
- Progress on the UoS PL-BWO experiment
- Maclnnes P, Donaldson C, MacLachlan A J, Whyte C G, Ronald K, Phelps A D, Cross A W
- 2023 IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS) IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS) Vol 2023 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/icops45740.2023.10481430
- Helical waveguides : microwave amplifiers and pulse compressors
- Young A, Whyte C, Robertson C, Maclnnes P, Cross A, Ronald K, Phelps A
- 2023 IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS) IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS) Vol 2023 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/icops45740.2023.10481001
- The effects of electron cyclotron absorption in powerful narrow-band sub-THz oscillators exploiting volume and surface modes
- MacLachlan A J, Robertson C W, Cross A W, Phelps A D R
- IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices Vol 70, pp. 2760-2766 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2023.3244160
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Professional Activities
- 14th UK-Europe-China Workshop on Millimetre Waves and THz Technologies (UCMMT 2021)
- Organiser
- 13/9/2021
- Generation of Electron Cyclotron Microwave Emissions in a Mirror Discharge,
- Contributor
- 12/9/2021
- Ionospheric Beat-Wave Brillouin Scattering at EISCAT
- 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
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: 548 3166