Magnetic perturbation effects on noise and startup in DC-operating oven magnetrons

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 864-871

  Neculaes, V Bogdan ^a   Jones, Michael C ^a   Gilgenbach, Ronald M ^a   Lau, Y Y ^a   Luginsland, John W ^b   Hoff, Brad W ^a   White, William M ^a   Jordan, N M ^a   Pengvanich, P ^a   Hidaka, Y ^a   Bosman, Herman L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NumerEx   (United States)

Author keywords

High power microwaves; Magnetron; Microwave noise

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE OVENS; MICROWAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

HIGH POWER MICROWAVES; MIROWAVE NOISE;

MAGNETRONS;

EID: 21044447075     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2005.845857     Document Type: Article

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