The Tilted Electric Field Soft-Landing Collector and its Application to a Traveling-Wave Tube

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1972, Pages 104-110

  Okoshi, Takanori ^a   Chiu, Eng Beng ^c   Matsuki, Sadao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Japan Patent Office   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TUBES--TRAVELING WAVE;

EID: 0015286002     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-ED.1972.17378     Document Type: Article

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