High power microwave switching utilizing a waveguide spark gap

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 79, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Foster, J ^a   Edmiston, G ^a   Thomas, M ^a   Neuber, A ^a  

^a Texas Tech University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC SPARKS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; EXPERIMENTS; GALLIUM ALLOYS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; SWITCHES; TIME SWITCHES; WAVEGUIDES;

COMPUTER MODELING; DIELECTRIC WINDOWS; ELECTRIC FIELD COMPONENTS; EXCITATION PROFILES; EXPERIMENTAL ARRANGEMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL SET-UP; HIGH POWER MICROWAVES; HIGH POWERS; MECHANICAL SWITCHES; MICROWAVE BREAKDOWNS; MICROWAVE STRUCTURES; NANO-SECONDS; PERFORMANCE DATUMS; POWER LEVELS; RISE TIMES; SHORT PERIODS; SPARK GAPS; TIME SCALES; TO SWITCHES; U.S. AIR FORCES; WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURES;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 57049182968     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3010381     Document Type: Article

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