Theory and experiment of ultrahigh-gain gyrotron traveling wave amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 391-404

  Chu, Kwo Ray ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; GYROTRONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; OSCILLATIONS;

MILLIMETER WAVE AMPLIFIERS; TRAVELING WAVE AMPLIFIERS;

MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0032625161     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.772266     Document Type: Article

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