Space charge effects as a source of electron energy spread and efficiency degradation in gyrotrons

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 633-637

  Bratman, Vladimir L ^a   Dumbrajs, Olgierd ^a,c,d   Nikkola, Petri ^a,e   Savilov, Andrey V ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b Association EURATOM FZK ^*

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; DEGRADATION; ELECTRIC SPACE CHARGE; ELECTRON CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRONS;

ELECTRON ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ELECTRON ENERGY SPREAD; SPACE CHARGE EFFECTS;

GYROTRONS;

EID: 0034197782     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.887690     Document Type: Article

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