The research progress of vacuum electron device in terahertz band

Shao-Jie CHANG; Zhen-Hua WU; Jie HUANG; Tao ZHAO; Di-Wei LIU; Min HU; Yan-Yu WEI; Yu-Bin GONG; Sheng-Gang LIU

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2022.01.005

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