Multipactor prediction with multi-carrier signals: Experimental results and discussions on the 20-gap-crossing rule

8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1638-1642

  Anza, Sergio ^a   Vicente, Carlos ^a   Gil, Jordi ^a   Mattes, Michael ^b   Wolk, Dieter ^c   Wochner, Ulrich ^c   Boria, Vicente E ^d   Gimeno, Benito ^e   Raboso, David ^f  

^a Aurora Software and Testing SL   (Spain)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c Tesat Spacecom GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^f EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

Author keywords

breakdown; high power; measurement; multi carrier

Indexed keywords

BREAKDOWN; HIGH-POWER; MULTI CARRIER; MULTICARRIER SIGNAL; MULTIPACTORS; SIGNAL PARAMETERS; TEST CAMPAIGN; THEORETICAL POINTS;

MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 84908626623     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EuCAP.2014.6902101     Document Type: Conference Paper

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