Absolute instability in a traveling wave tube model

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 4408-4410

  Ang, L K ^a   Lau, Y Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 0012854765     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.873178     Document Type: Article

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