1.5: Development of field emission cathodes, electron gun and a slow wave structure for a terahertz traveling wave tube

2010 IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference, IVEC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 25-26

  Lockwood, Nathaniel P ^a   Cartwright, Keith L ^a   Gensheimer, P D ^a   Shiffler, D A ^a   D'Aubigny, Christian Y ^b   Walker, Christopher K ^b   Young, Abraham ^b   Fairchild, Steven B ^a   Maruyama, Benji ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon fiber; Carbon nanotubes; Cathodes; Electron beam; Electron gun; Field emission; ICEPIC; Particle in cell; Terahertz; Terahertz amplifier; Traveling wave tube

Indexed keywords

BEAM CHARACTERISTICS; BEAM OPTICS; EMISSION PROPERTIES; HIGH BANDWIDTH COMMUNICATION; HIGH CURRENT DENSITIES; HIGH-POWER; ICEPIC; PARTICLE-IN-CELL; PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBES; SLOW WAVE STRUCTURES; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ AMPLIFIER;

CARBIDES; CARBON FIBERS; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON GUNS; ELECTRON TUBES; ELECTRONS; FIELD EMISSION; PLASMA GUNS; REMOTE SENSING; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TERAHERTZ WAVES; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES; TUBES (COMPONENTS); VACUUM; VACUUM TECHNOLOGY;

FIELD EMISSION CATHODES;

EID: 77954849544     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IVELEC.2010.5503622     Document Type: Conference Paper

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