General scaling of pulse shortening in explosive-emission-driven microwave sources

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 256-262

  Price, David ^a   Benford, James N ^a  

^a MAXWELL TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Child langmuir; Diode plasma motion; High power microwave; Pulse shortening

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; CAVITY RESONATORS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON EMISSION; ELECTRON SOURCES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE GENERATION; PLASMA DIODES; PLASMA SOURCES;

CHILD LANGMUIR DIODE; MICROWAVE SOURCES; PULSE SHORTENING;

MICROWAVE DEVICES;

EID: 0032097447     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.700752     Document Type: Article

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