Experimental Study of a Plasma-Filled Backward Wave Oscillator

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 142-150

  Zhai, Xiaoling ^a   Garate, Eusebio ^a   Prohaska, Robert ^a   Benford, Gregory ^a   Fisher, Amnon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKWARD WAVE TUBES; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS; MICROWAVE TUBES; PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES;

BACKWARD WAVE OSCILLATORS; PLASMA-FILLED OSCILLATORS; X-BAND BWO;

PLASMA OSCILLATIONS;

EID: 0027544762     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.221113     Document Type: Note

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