Development of high-power Ka-band and Q-band helix-TWTs

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 653-659

  Chong, Chae K ^a   Davis, Jon A ^a   Le Borgne, Ronald H ^a   Ramay, Michael L ^a   Stolz, Richard J ^a   Tamashiro, Rod N ^a   Vaszari, John P ^a   Zhai, Xiaoling ^a  

^a TITAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Helix traveling wave tubes (TWTs); Millimeter wave

Indexed keywords

ANODES; BANDWIDTH; CATHODES; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON GUNS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; POWER AMPLIFIERS; RADAR;

MILLIMETER WAVE HELIX TRAVELING WAVE TUBES; PULSED RADAR APPLICATIONS;

TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

EID: 18844439693     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2005.845842     Document Type: Article

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