A Ten-Stage Electrostatic Depressed Collector for Improving Klystron Efficiency

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1972, Pages 111-121

  Neugebauer, Wendell ^a   Mihran, Theodore G ^a  

^a GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TUBES--KLYSTRON;

EID: 0015285650     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-ED.1972.17379     Document Type: Article

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