Effectiveness and limitation of the periodic boundary approximation in the analysis of single-pass electron beam devices

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 30, Issue 3 I, 2002, Pages 1292-1297

  Hirata, Akimasa ^a   Hirosaka, Shiro ^b   Shiozawa, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cherenkov traveling wave amplifiers; Electron beam devices; FDTD methods; High power microwave generation; Particle simulation; Periodic boundary approximation

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

CHERENKOV TRAVELING-WAVE AMPLIFIERS;

ELECTRON BEAMS;

EID: 0036627478     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2002.801633     Document Type: Article

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