Scanning the technology - Vacuum electronics at the dawn of the twenty-first century

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 702-716

  Granatstein, Victor L ^a   Parker, Robert K ^b   Armstrong, Carter M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cathodes; Free electron laser; Gyrotron; High power microwaves; Klystron; Magnet materials; Microwave power module; Numerical simulation; RF window materials; Traveling wave tube (TWT); Vacuum electronics

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; GYROTRONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

VACUUM ELECTRONICS;

VACUUM TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0032661414     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.757251     Document Type: Article

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