Numerical Analysis and Design for High-Performance Helix Traveling-Wave Tubes

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 1985, Pages 1842-1849

  Tsutaki, Kunio ^a   Yuasa, Yoshio ^a   Morizumi, Yosihiro ^a  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - NUMERICAL METHODS; OSCILLATORS, MICROWAVE;

BACKWARD-WAVE OSCILLATOR (BWO); HELIX TWT DESIGN; SLOW-WAVE CIRCUITS;

ELECTRON TUBES, TRAVELING WAVE;

EID: 0022119224     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-ED.1985.22207     Document Type: Article

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