The design method of millimeter-wave sheet-beam electron gun

TANG Xian-Feng; DUAN Zhao-Yun; WANG Zhan-Liang; TANG Tao; WEI Yan-Yu; GONG Yu-Bin

doi:10.3724/sp.j.1010.2014.00619

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