Design of a Ka-band gyro-TWT for radar applications

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 108-115

  Nguyen, Khanh T ^a,b   Calame, Jeffrey P ^a,c   Pershing, Dean E ^b   Danly, Bruce G ^b   Garven, Morag ^c   Levush, Baruch ^b,c,d   Antonsen Jr , Thomas M ^e,f  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c KN Research   (United States)

^d MISSION RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

^e OMEGA P INC   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GYRO AMPLIFIERS; MAGNETRON INJECTION GUN;

BANDWIDTH; CYCLOTRONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTRON GUNS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; MAGNETRONS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; RADAR SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

GYROTRONS;

EID: 0035129996     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.892176     Document Type: Article

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