Wide-band semivane and heavily dielectric loaded helix traveling-wave tubes

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 30, Issue 3 I, 2002, Pages 1009-1016

  Jung, Sun Shin ^a   Baik, Chan Wook ^b   Han, Seong Tae ^b   Jeon, Seok Gy ^b   Ha, Hyun Jun ^c   Soukhov, Andrei V ^b   Jia, Baofu ^b   Park, Gun Sik ^b   Kim, Hyoung S ^d,e   Uhm, Han S ^d   Basu, B N ^f  

^a Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI)   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

^d Ajou University   (South Korea)

^e KMW   (South Korea)

^f BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Helical slow wave structure; Negative dispersion; Traveling wave tube; Wide band

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DISPERSION (WAVES); ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; GAIN CONTROL; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

NEGATIVE DISPERSION;

TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

EID: 0036627336     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2002.801660     Document Type: Article

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