Design of high-efficiency wide-bandwidth coupled-cavity traveling-wave tube phase velocity tapers with simulated annealing algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 95-100

  Wilson, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON BEAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

FREQUENCY BANDWIDTH; POWER EFFICIENCY; RADIO FREQUENCY PHASE VELOCITY TAPER; SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHMS;

TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

EID: 0035121141     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.892174     Document Type: Article

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