High power microwave tubes : basics and trends. Volume 1 / Vishal Kesari, B.N. Basu.

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1. Introduction -- 2. Microwave tubes : classification, applications and trends -- 2.1. Classification -- 2.2. Applications -- 2.3. Trends in research and development

3. Basic enabling concepts -- 3.1. Cathode -- 3.2. Space-charge-limited and temperature-limited emission -- 3.3. Space-charge waves and cyclotron waves -- 3.4. Electron bunching mechanism -- 3.5. Induced current due to electron beam flow -- 3.6. Space-charge-limiting current -- 3.7. Conservation of kinetic energy in M-type tubes

4. Formation, confinement and collection of an electron beam -- 4.1. Electron gun -- 4.2. Magnetic focusing structure -- 4.3. Multistage depressed collector

5. Analytical aspects of beam-absent and beam-present slow-wave and fast-wave interaction structures -- 5.1. Analysis of helical slow-wave interaction structures -- 5.2. Analysis of fast-wave disc-loaded waveguide interaction structures -- 5.3. Growing-wave interactions in slow-wave TWTs and fast-wave gyro-TWTs.

Our aim in this book is to present a bird's-eye view of microwave tubes (MWTs) which continue to be important despite competitive incursions from solid-state devices (SSDs). We have presented a broad and introductory survey which we hope the readers would be encouraged to read rather than going through lengthier books, and subsequently explore the field of MWTs further in selected areas of relevance to their respective interests. We hope that the present book would motivate newcomers to pursue research in MWTs and apprise them as well as decision makers of the salient features and prospects of as well as the trends of progress in MWTs. The scope of ever expanding applications of MWTs in the high power and high frequency regime will sustain and intensify the research and development in MWTs in coming years.