70% efficient Ku-band and C-band TWTs for satellite downlinks

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 673-678

  Menninger, William L ^a   Benton, Robert T ^a   Choi, Mun S ^a   Feicht, Jon R ^a   Hallsten, Ulf R ^a   Limburg, Helen Conley ^a   McGeary, William L ^a   Zhai, Xiaoling ^a  

^a TITAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave power amplifiers; Satellite communication; Traveling wave tube amplifiers (TWTA); Traveling wave tubes (TWT)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SATELLITE LINKS; SOLID STATE DEVICES;

MICROWAVE POWER AMPLIFIERS; TRAVELING WAVE TUBE AMPLIFIERS;

TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

EID: 18844437316     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2005.845840     Document Type: Article

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