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http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/31277| Title: | Design of electron guns using a bespoke genetic algorithm |
| Authors: | Ribton, C del Pozo, S Balachandran, W Smith, DR |
| Issue Date: | 13-Jun-2016 |
| Publisher: | The Union of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications (CEEC) |
| Citation: | Ribton, C. et al. (2016) 'Design of electron guns using a bespoke genetic algorithm', Electrotechnica & Electronica, 51 (5-6), pp. 120 - 128. Available at: https://epluse.ceec.bg/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20160506-20.pdf (accessed: 19 May 2025) |
| Abstract: | Electron beams are used in many different industrial, medical and scientific applications. Each area has many specific requirements that can only be met with bespoke gun designs producing beams with the required intensity, brightness and divergence for the application. Usually, tentative gun designs are produced, simulated using modelling software and then the resultant beam is analysed in comparison to the requirements. The designer continues with this trial and error approach until a satisfactory design is derived. This is labour intensive and suffers and may not produce an optimum design. This paper describes the development of algorithms to automatically derive an optimum gun design. The method uses a genetic algorithm approach, where the gun design is described by a genetic code. Evolutionary processes are then applied to a population of gun designs, and after several generations near optimum designs are evolved. This offers a rapid method of customising gun designs and allows radical design approaches to be examined. |
| Description: | Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Electron Beam Technologies, Vienna, Austria, 13-18 June, 2016. |
| URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/31277 |
| ISSN: | 0861-4717 |
| Other Identifiers: | ORCiD: Wamadeva Balachandran https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4806-2257 ORCiD: David Ryan Smith https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3658-4506 |
| Appears in Collections: | Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers |
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