Optically driven field emission array for THZ amplifiers

2009 IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference, IVEC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 325-326

  Guiset, P ^a   Combrie, S ^a   Antoni, T ^a   Carras, M ^a   Rossi, A De ^a   Schnell, J P ^a   Legagneux, P ^a  

^a THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Field emission; Grating; Surface wave; Terahertz

Indexed keywords

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; DUAL-FREQUENCY LASERS; ELECTRONIC BEAMS; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FIELD EMISSION ARRAYS; FIELD EMITTER; FIELD EMITTER ARRAYS; GRATING; INCIDENT ENERGY; METALLIC GRATINGS; MULTI-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATIONS; TERAHERTZ; THZ FREQUENCIES;

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRON BEAMS; FIELD EMISSION; FLUID DYNAMICS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); SURFACE WAVES; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES; VACUUM; VACUUM TECHNOLOGY; WATER WAVES;

FIELD EMISSION CATHODES;

EID: 70449569394     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IVELEC.2009.5193414     Document Type: Conference Paper

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