Milestones in the History of IVEC

Vacuum Electronics Conferences 1955 -1995
IEEE EDS International Electron Device Conference

  • An annual, prestigious, highly selective international conference hosted papers on vacuum electronics from 1955 to 1995

Microwave Power Tube Conference (Monterey Conference)

  • A biennial, classified, US-only conference launched in 1974  was sponsored by the DoD Advisory Group on Electron Devices (AGED)

Tri-Service Cathode Workshop

  • A biennial workshop started in 1978, with military services as rotating hosts, sponsored by DoD AGED          

International Vacuum Microelectronics Conference

  • An international conference Initiated in 1988 by Henry Gray and Capp Spindt, with IEEE Electron Device Society (EDS) sponsorship
  • Primarily focused on field-emission devices and applications

European Space Agency (ESA) Space TWT Workshop

  • An international, triennial workshop founded in 1989 that was sponsored by the ESA European Space Research and Technology Centre

IEEE Plasma Science Society International Conference on Plasma Science

  • Vacuum electronics was a subset of this annual, international conference, which began in 1973

The 1990s Bring Changes

Tri-Service Cathode Workshop becomes the International Vacuum Electron Sources Conference (IVESC)

  • NASA added to the host rotation for Cathode Workshop in 1990
  • NASA replaced the Air Force as sponsor in 1994
  • NASA tasked by AGED to terminate Cathode Workshop and turn it into an IEEE conference
  • IVESC initiated in 1996 sponsored by IEEE EDS

The International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), 1997-present

In 1997 the International Technical Committee for Vacuum Electronics formed

  • Technical Committee was given oversight of technical conferences
  • First IVEC conference held in Monterey in 2000
  • IVEC meets biennially in the US and has alternated between Europe and Asia every fourth year

 

 

 

IVEC Locations 2000-2020

YEAR

LOCATION

General Chair

Technical Program Chair

2000

Monterey, USA

Dr. James A. Dayton Jr., Hughes Electron Dynamics

Dr. Richard True, Litton

2001

Noordwijk, The Netherlands

Dr. Marco Guglielmi

Dr. James A. Dayton Jr., Hughes Electron Dynamics

2002

Monterey, USA

Dr. Richard True, Litton

Dr. Dan M. Goebel, Jet Propulsion Lab.

2003

Seoul, South Korea

Dr. Gun-Sik Park, Seoul National Univ.

Dr. Myeun Kwon, Korea Basic Science Inst.

2004

Monterey, USA

Dr. Dan M. Goebel, Jet Propulsion Lab.

Dr. Carol L. Kory, Calabazas Creek Research/Analex Corporation/NASA GRC

2005

Noordwijk, The Netherlands

Dr. Pierre Waller

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2006

Monterey, USA

Mr. Bob Fickett, CPI

Dr. Baruch Levush, Naval Research Lab.

2007

Kitakyushu, Japan

Dr. Takao Kageyama, FAIS

Co-chairs:  Dr. Yaogen Ding, CAS
Dr. Toshitaka Idehara, Univ. of Fukui

2008

Monterey, USA

Dr. Baruch Levush, Naval Research Lab.

Dr. Carol L. Kory, Calabazas Creek Research/Teraphysics Corp.

2009

Rome, Italy

Dr. Marinella Aloisio, ESA

Dr. Claudio Paoloni, Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata

2010

Monterey, USA

Dr. Carol L. Kory, Teraphysics Corp.

Dr. William L. Menninger, L3

2011

Bangalore, India

Co-chairs:  Dr. Lalit Kumar, MTRDC
Dr. I.V. Sarma, BEL

Co-chairs:  Dr. K.S. Bhat, MTRDC
Dr. K.N. Bhat, IIT-M

2012

Monterey, USA

Dr. William L. Menninger, L3

Dr. David K. Abe, Naval Research Lab.

2013

Paris, France

Dr. Marinella Aloisio, ESA

Dr. Philippe Thouvenin, TED

2014

Monterey, USA

Dr. David K. Abe, Naval Research Lab.

Dr. David Whaley, L3

2015

Beijing, China

Dr. Tiechang Yan, BVERI

Dr. Jinjun Feng, BVERI

2016

Monterey, USA

Dr. David Whaley, L3

Dr. Monica Blank, CPI

2017

London, UK

Dr. Natanael Ayllon, ESA

Dr. Claudio Paoloni, Lancaster Univ.

2018

Monterey, USA

Dr. Monica Blank, CPI

Dr. Jagadishwar R. Sirigiri, Bridge12 Tech.

2019

Busan, South Korea

Prof. Gun-Sik Park, Seoul National Univ.

Prof. Jin Joo Choi, Kwangwoon Univ.

2020

Virtual

Dr. Jagadishwar R. Sirigiri, Bridge12 Tech.

Dr. Jack Tucek, Northrop Grumman

2021

Virtual

Co-chairs: Dr. Natanael Ayllion, ESA
Dr. Roberto Dionisio, ESA

Co-chair: Prof. John Jelonnek, KIT
Dr. Philippe Thouvenin (Thales AVS)

2022

Monterey, USA

Chair: Dr. Jack Tucek, Northrop Grumman Corporation

Co-chair:  Dr. Max Mankin, Modern Electron Corporation

2023

Chengdu, China

General chair: Yubin Gong, UESTC

Technical program chair: Yaxin Zhang, UESTC

2024

Monterey, CA

General chair: Max Mankin

Technical program chair: Rich Kowalczyk



Compiled by Dr. James A. Dayton, Jr., the founder of IVEC