High-power high-convergence electron gun for an 11.424-GHz pulsed magnicon

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 30, Issue 3 I, 2002, Pages 1220-1231

  Nezhevenko, Oleg A ^a   Yakovlev, Vyacheslav P ^a   Gold, Steven H ^b   Kinkead, Allen K ^c  

^a OMEGA P INC   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LET Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron gun; Magnicon

Indexed keywords

CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON ABSORPTION; ELECTRON BEAMS; ENERGY TRANSFER; OSCILLATIONS;

MAGNICONS;

ELECTRON GUNS;

EID: 0036627525     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2002.801556     Document Type: Article

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