High-Power Harmonic Gyro-TWT’s—Part II: Nonlinear Theory and Design

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 163-169

  Chu, K R ^a   Kou, C S ^b   Luhmann, N C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GYROTRONS; HARMONIC GENERATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

MAGNETRON INJECTION GUNS;

ELECTRON TUBES, TRAVELING WAVE;

EID: 0026881068     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.142816     Document Type: Article

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