An Investigation of a Magnetron Injection Gun Suitable for Use in Cyclotron Resonance Masers

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 1979, Pages 1609-1616

  Seftor, J Laurence ^a,b   Drobot, Adam T ^b   Chu, Kwo Ray ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON GUNS; MASERS;

ELECTRON TUBES, MAGNETRON;

EID: 0018534053     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-ED.1979.19660     Document Type: Article

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