Analysis of coaxial ridged disk-loaded slow-wave structures for relativistic traveling wave tubes

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 32, Issue 3 I, 2004, Pages 1086-1092

  Yue, Lingna ^a   Wang, Wenxiang ^a   Gong, Yubin ^a   Zhang, Keqian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DISPERSION (WAVES); ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTRON BEAMS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

COAXIAL RIDGE DISK LOADED SLOW WAVE STRUCTURE; COUPLING IMPEDANCE; DISK LOADED PERIODIC SYSTEM; DISPERSION RELATION; RELATIVISTIC TRAVELING WAVE TUBES; SLOW WAVE CIRCUIT; SMALL SIGNAL GAIN;

TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

EID: 4344708380     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2004.828784     Document Type: Article

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