Traveling-wave tubes

Modern Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Power Electronics

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 171-245

  Booske, John H ^a   Whaley, David R ^b   Menninger, William L ^c   Hollister, Roger S ^c   Armstrong, Carter M ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b TITAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Electric fields; Electromagnetic scattering; Electromagnetic waveguides; Microwave amplifiers; Microwave communication; Microwave ovens

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE OVENS; MICROWAVE TUBES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVEGUIDES; MICROWAVE COMMUNICATIONS;

TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

EID: 40949099847     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1109/9780471714163.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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