Air Force Research Laboratory, Directed Energy Directorate, Kirtland AFB, New Mexico 87117, USA.
Lovelace Biomedical Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87108, USA.
Rev Sci Instrum. 2021 Jan 1;92(1):014707. doi: 10.1063/5.0032823.
A set of three apparatus enabling RF exposure of aerosolized pathogens at four chosen frequencies (2.8 GHz, 4.0 GHz, 5.6 GHz, and 7.5 GHz) has been designed, simulated, fabricated, and tested. Each apparatus was intended to operate at high power without leakage of RF into the local environment and to be compact enough to fit within biocontainment enclosures required for elevated biosafety levels. Predictions for the range of RF electric field exposure, represented by the complex electric field vector magnitude, that an aerosol stream would be expected to encounter while passing through the apparatus are calculated for each of the chosen operating frequencies.
已经设计、模拟、制造和测试了一套能够在四个选定频率（2.8GHz、4.0GHz、5.6GHz 和 7.5GHz）下对气溶胶化病原体进行射频暴露的装置。每个装置旨在在不泄漏射频到局部环境的情况下以高功率运行，并且足够紧凑以适合于需要提高生物安全水平的生物安全柜内使用。针对气溶胶流在通过装置时可能遇到的射频电场暴露范围，即复向量电场强度，针对每个选定的工作频率进行了计算。
