Recent progress in the development of plasma-filled traveling-wave tubes and backward-wave oscillators

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 628-645

  Nusinovich, Gregory S ^a   Carmel, Yuval ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Backward wave oscillators; Plasma; Travelingwave tubes

Indexed keywords

BACKWARD WAVE TUBES; BANDWIDTH; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES;

SLOW WAVE STRUCTURES (SWS);

MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0032095857     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.700799     Document Type: Article

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