Electron emission from slow-wave structure walls in a long-pulse, high-power backward wave oscillator

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 335-341

  Grabowski, Chris ^a   Gahl, J M ^a   Schamiloglu, Edl ^a  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON EMISSION; MICROWAVE GENERATION; PLASMA SOURCES;

HIGH POWER BACKWARD WAVE OSCILLATORS (BWO); PULSE SHORTENING;

MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0031122890     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.602508     Document Type: Article

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