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H - and E -Plane Loaded Slow Wave Structure for W -Band TWT

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>31/01/2020
<mark>Journal</mark>IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Issue number1
Volume67
Number of pages5
Pages (from-to)309-313
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date19/12/19
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Sheet beam vacuum electron tubes are an attractive solution for high-power sources or amplifiers at millimeter-waves. In this article, a novel W -band slow wave structure (SWS) for traveling wave tube (TWT) amplifiers supporting a sheet beam is proposed. The SWS is based on a rectangular waveguide with H - and E -plane loaded (HEL) metal corrugations. A test structure of the proposed HEL SWS with purposely designed input and output couplers was built in the frequency range of 91–98 GHz ( W -band). The measured scattering-parameters agree well with the simulations showing S11<−15 dB over 10-GHz bandwidth. A TWT was designed and simulated with the HEL SWS. It shows very good gain-bandwidth performance. The SWS is easy to manufacture by low-cost computer numerical controlled (CNC)-milling. The results demonstrated that the HEL SWS is a very good solution to build high-power, wideband millimeter-wave TWTs for a wide range of applications that need high power in a broad frequency range.

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