Review of power enhancement methods for millimeter wave and terahertz TWTs

FENG Jinjun; ZHANG Xiaoqing; CAI Jun; PAN Pan; FENG Yuan; ZHANG Changqing; YANG Jinsheng

doi:10.11805/tkyda2022233

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