Calculation of DC space-charge fields in a traveling-wave amplifier in the large signal regime

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 32, Issue 3 I, 2004, Pages 1028-1039

  Chang, Chia Lie ^a   Antonsen Jr , Thomas M ^b   Chernin, David P ^a   Levush, Baruch ^b   Nelson, Eric M ^b   Petillo, John J ^b   Whaley, David R ^b  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTRIC SPACE CHARGE; ELECTRON BEAMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON EQUATION; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

SIMULATION SOFTWARE; SPACE CHARGE MODEL; STEADY STATE GUN CODES; TRAVELING WAVE AMPLIFIER;

MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 4143090592     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2004.827610     Document Type: Article

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