Technical characteristics of a novel helical-groove traveling-wave tube structure

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 34, Issue 4 PART 1, 1998, Pages 1408-1410

  Wallett, Thomas M ^a   Vaden, Karl R ^a   Freeman, Jon ^a  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Helical groove; Helix; Interaction impedance; MAFIA

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION;

HELICAL GROOVE STRUCTURE; SOFTWARE PACKAGE MAFIA;

TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

EID: 0032118395     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.706564     Document Type: Article

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