Design and cold-test of sheet beam coupled cavity slow wave structure for W-Band TWT

Zhi-Gang LU; Wei-Hua GE; Rui-Dong WEN; Zhi-Cheng SU; Mei-Ling ZHU; Ke-Sen DING; Zhan-Liang WANG; Tao TANG

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2020.02.004

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