Double-corrugated rectangular waveguide slow-wave structure for terahertz vacuum devices

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3169-3175

  Mineo, Mauro ^a   Paoloni, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Backward wave oscillator (BWO); double corrugated waveguide; slow wave structure (SWS); terahertz; traveling wave tube (TWT); vacuum devices

Indexed keywords

BACKWARD-WAVE OSCILLATORS; CORRUGATED WAVEGUIDE; SLOW WAVE STRUCTURES; TERA HERTZ; VACUUM DEVICES;

ELECTROMAGNETISM; ELECTRON BEAMS; MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS; MICROWAVE TUBES; PLASMA OSCILLATIONS; RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDES; TERAHERTZ WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VACUUM;

TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

EID: 78049297916     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2010.2071876     Document Type: Article

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