Development of high-current sheet beam cathodes for terahertz sources

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 762-768

  Li, Lili ^a   Wang, Yiman ^a   Liu, Wei ^a   Wang, Yanchun ^a   Wang, Jinshu ^a   Srivastava, Anurag ^b   So, Jin Kyu ^b   Park, Gun Sik ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

High current density; Scandate cathode; Sheet beam; Smith Purcell radiation sources; Terahertz

Indexed keywords

HIGH CURRENT DENSITY; SCANDATE CATHODE; SHEET BEAM; SMITH-PURCELL RADIATION SOURCES; TERAHERTZ;

ELECTRON DEVICES; QUANTUM OPTICS; RADIATION; VACUUM;

CATHODES;

EID: 67349178300     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2009.2015414     Document Type: Article

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