The hobetron-a high power vacuum electronic switch

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 122-128

  True, Richard B ^a   Hansen, Robert J ^a   Good, Gwen R ^b  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Good Scientific Programming   (United States)

Author keywords

Current regulation; Electron beams; Electron guns; Electron optics; Electron tubes; High voltage techniques; Linear accelerators; Modulators; Power amplifiers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON GUNS; ELECTRON OPTICS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; POWER SUPPLY CIRCUITS; RADAR EQUIPMENT;

MAGNETRON INJECTION GUN; PULSE POWER SYSTEMS; VACUUM ELECTRONICS;

ELECTRON TUBES;

EID: 0035124336     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.892178     Document Type: Article

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