Interested in

High Voltage?

 

Ever wanted to be part of a great

EOH Project?

 

Does being on the cutting-edge of

Weapons Design interest you?

 

 

Then come join

PULSE

(an ACM-SIGMil initiative)

 

Meeting:

Friday at 7 PM

ACM Office at 1225 DCL

(if late, come to L510 in the basement of DCL)

 

PULSE is a directed Transient ElectroMagnetic Pulse weapon (or TEMP). It is the newest idea in electromagnetic weaponry.  Most EMP devices are built around the principle of “known vulnerabilities.”  You want to disable that radio station?  Well, that antenna receives as well as it transmits.  So you dump large amounts of microwave energy at the proper frequency against it, in a highly directed microwave beam.  This is known as the HERF, or High Energy Radio Frequency, method.  In essence, the station is flooded with the microwave’s energy until the specifically targeted circuits burn out.  The TEMP weapons are different.  They rely on a “shotgun” approach.  Instead of hitting a single frequency with lots of power over a long period of time, the TEMP method hits every frequency with lots of power over an extremely short period of time.  A TEMP is more like a lightning strike (without the fancy bolts) than a microwave beam.  PULSE is a TEMP, which will, if built according to plans, output over 2.4 Gigawatts/foot at the mouth of the antenna.  PULSE is going to be demonstrated at EOH and we need plenty of help.  So if this sounds like something you might be interested in (i.e. HV electronics, large energy-storage systems, and interesting radiation effects) be sure to show up at our meeting!

 

 

Contact: jkramer1@uiuc.edu with any questions.