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C. W. Robertson

Physics and Astronomy · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1969Rising activity
Gyrotron and Vacuum Electronics ResearchMicrowave Engineering and WaveguidesParticle accelerators and beam dynamicsPulsed Power Technology ApplicationsMagnetic confinement fusion research

Publications

330

Citations

3,229

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

58

Publishing since 1969

Research summary
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C. W. Robertson's core work centers on high-power vacuum electronic devices such as gyrotrons, backward-wave oscillators (BWOs), and Cherenkov radiation sources operating at millimeter-wave and terahertz frequencies, with applications in areas like fusion heating, radar, and advanced electron gun design. The publication record also includes a substantial number of papers on gravitational wave detector instrumentation and astrophysics (e.g., LIGO/KAGRA collaboration papers), which likely reflect large multi-author collaborations rather than the PI's primary individual research focus; a smaller number of unrelated medical/clinical papers also appear, probably due to author-name overlap in the bibliographic database rather than a genuine research connection.

High-power microwave and millimeter-wave vacuum electronics (gyrotrons, BWOs)Terahertz and sub-THz Cherenkov radiation sourcesElectron gun and cathode design for vacuum devicesGravitational wave detector instrumentation and control (collaborative)Waveguide and periodic structure design for high-power RF

Publication output has fluctuated over the past decade without a clear steady increase or decrease, with a notable rise in 2023 and 2025 following a dip around 2020-2022.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 10.4/year recently
2017: 11 publications172018: 11 publications182019: 14 publications192020: 7 publications202021: 10 publications212022: 6 publications222023: 17 publications17232024: 10 publications242025: 16 publications252026: 3 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Physical Review Letters×9
  • Physics Letters B×5
  • arXiv (Cornell University)×5
  • The Cambridge Structural Database×5
  • Bulletin of the American Physical Society×4
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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