The tilted electric field soft-landing collector and its application to a traveling-wave tube
- 1 January 1972
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
- Vol. 19 (1), 104-110
- https://doi.org/10.1109/t-ed.1972.17378
Abstract
If a collector in a beam-type tube captures all the electrons at almost zero velocity, the tube efficiency will approach unity. Such a collector might be called a soft-landing collector. This paper describes the principle, design theory, preliminary experimentation, and application of a new type collector in which an almost complete soft landing can be realized. The experimental TWT equipped with this collector achieved an efficiency improvement from 19 to 46 percent.Keywords
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