Nonresonant Perturbation measurements on dispersion and interaction impedance characteristics of helical slow-wave structures

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1585-1593

  Rao, S J ^a   Ghosh, S ^a   Jain, P K ^a   Basu, B N ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Microwave measurement; Nonresonant perturbation; Slow wave structure; Traveling wave tube

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYZERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STEPPING MOTORS;

HELICAL SLOW WAVE STRUCTURES;

TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

EID: 0031233034     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.622926     Document Type: Article

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