Efficiency Enhancement of High Power Vacuum BWO's Using Nonuniform Slow Wave Structures

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 554-565

  Moreland, Larald D ^a   Schamiloglu, Edl ^a   Lemke, Raymond W ^b   Korovin, S D ^c   Rostov, V V ^c   Roitman, A M ^c   Hendricks, Kyle J ^d   Spencer, T A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF HIGH CURRENT ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKWARD WAVE TUBES; CAVITY RESONATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON BEAMS; HARMONIC GENERATION; MICROWAVE TUBES; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;

SINUS 6 ACCELERATOR; SLOW WAVE STRUCTURES; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC MODE;

MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0028531976     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.338268     Document Type: Article

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