Spurious reflection of space charge fields in TWTAs

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 755-763

  Antonsen Jr , Thomas M ^a   Chernin, David P ^b   Cooke, Simon J ^c   Levush, Baruch ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Matching; Reflections; Self fields; Traveling wave tubes

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

SPURIOUS REFLECTION; TRAVELING WAVE TUBE AMPLIFIERS (TWTA);

TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

EID: 18844368287     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2005.845869     Document Type: Article

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