Development of linear traveling wave tubes for telecommunications applications

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 74-81

  Goebel, D M ^a   Liou, R R ^a   Menninger, W L ^a   Zhai, X ^a  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; DISTORTION (WAVES); INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; INTERMODULATION; OPTIMIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

HELIX CIRCUIT; INTERMODULATION DISTORTION; MULTICHANNEL POWER AMPLIFIERS; SOLID STATE AMPLIFIERS; TRAVELING WAVE TUBE AMPLIFIERS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0035127732     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.892171     Document Type: Article

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