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Analysis of dielectric rods with arbitrary shape for low-dispersion slow-wave structures in helix TWTs

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Published
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>06/2006
<mark>Journal</mark>IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Issue number6
Volume53
Number of pages4
Pages (from-to)1490-1493
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

The introduction of rods with optimized cross-sectional shape in slow-wave structures (SWSs) for wideband helix traveling-wave tubes can sensibly improve the dispersion maintaining an adequate interaction-impedance level. In this brief, a procedure for analyzing helix SWSs loaded with rods of arbitrary shape, by using an analysis method adopting the inhomogeneous dielectric loading approach, is proposed. The advantages, in terms of SWS-dispersion improvement, of adopting optimized rod shapes in comparison to the typical rod shapes (i.e., rectangular, circular, and T-shaped) utilized up to now, are also demonstrated.