Accurate parametric modeling of folded waveguide circuits for millimeter-wave traveling wave tubes

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 685-694

  Booske, John H ^a   Converse, Mark C ^a   Kory, Carol L ^b   Chevalier, Christine T ^b   Gallagher, David A ^c   Kreischer, Kenneth E ^c   Heinen, Vernon O ^c   Bhattacharjee, Sudeep ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Folded waveguide; Millimeter wave; Numerical simulation; Traveling wave tube (TWT)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILLIMETER WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WAVEGUIDES;

FOLDED WAVEGUIDE TRAVELING WAVE TUBES; INTERACTION IMPEDANCE; PHASE VELOCITY;

TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

EID: 18844451559     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2005.845798     Document Type: Article

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