Design of a High Power X-Band Magnicon Amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 785-795

  Nezhevenko, O A ^a   Yakovlev, V P ^a   Gold, S H ^b   Hafizi, B ^c  

^a BUDKER INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Icarus Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; ELECTRON BEAMS; INTERPOLATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

DEFLECTION CAVITIES; FIELD EMISSION DIODES; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC MODE; X BAND MAGNICON AMPLIFIER;

MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0028532424     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.338294     Document Type: Article

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