Millimeter wave traveling wave tubes for the 21st century

C Paoloni, D Gamzina, R Letizia, Y Zheng… - Journal of …, 2021‏ - Taylor & Francis
Traveling wave tubes are rapidly evolving to provide unprecedented power level in
comparison to solid state devices in the millimeter waves region of the spectrum (80–300 …

Technology, Assembly, and Test of a W-Band Traveling Wave Tube for New 5G High-Capacity Networks

F Andre, JC Racamier, R Zimmermann… - … on electron devices, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The folded waveguide (FWG) traveling wave tube (TWT) developed in the frame of the
Horizon 2020 TWEETHER project for enabling a novel-band (92–95 GHz) high capacity …

Demonstration of a W-Band Traveling-Wave Tube Power Amplifier With 10-GHz Bandwidth

AM Cook, EL Wright, KT Nguyen… - … on Electron Devices, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the experimental demonstration of a traveling-wave tube (TWT) power amplifier
operating in the W-band (75-110 GHz) frequency range. The device is based on a …

Ka-Band Low-Voltage Multiple-Beam Mini-TWT

CD Joye, AN Vlasov, R Jaynes… - … on Electron Devices, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We describe the design, development, and initial testing of a very compact, multiple-beam
folded-waveguide traveling wave tube (TWT) operating in Ka-band at 6 kV. A proof-of …

[HTML][HTML] Microfabrication Technologies for Interaction Circuits of THz Vacuum Electronic Devices

X Li, J Feng - Micromachines, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
Advances in manufacturing technology are allowing for the realization of interaction circuit
with microstructures. The capability to produce small circuit structures is allowing new …

W-band and D-band traveling-wave tube circuits fabricated by 3D printing

AM Cook, CD Joye, JP Calame - IEEE Access, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the fabrication and electromagnetic testing of serpentine waveguide traveling-
wave tube amplifier circuits operating in the W-band (75-110 GHz) and D-band (110-170 …

Development of a 0.32-THz folded waveguide traveling wave tube

P Hu, W Lei, Y Jiang, Y Huang, R Song… - … on Electron Devices, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A traveling wave tube amplifier operating above 300 GHz based on folded waveguide
(FWG) slow-wave structure is presented in this paper. The design and test results of key …

Compact E-Band Sheet Beam Folded Waveguide Traveling Wave Tube for High Data Rate Communication

Y Zheng, S Qiu, B Griffin, R Kowalczyk… - … on Electron Devices, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The design of a compact-band (71–76 GHz) sheet beam (SB) folded waveguide (FWG)
traveling wave tube (TWT) for high data rate communications is presented in this article. The …

Power Enhancement in W-Band Pulsed Folded Waveguide TWT

X Zhang, J Feng, J Cai, Y Du… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To obtain higher power in W-band traveling-wave tubes (TWTs), a modified folded
waveguide (FWG) with non-concentric bends is introduced and demonstrated, which has …

Parametric modeling of serpentine waveguide traveling wave tubes

K Rouhi, R Marosi, T Mealy, A Figotin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A simple and fast model for numerically calculating small-signal gain in serpentine
waveguide traveling-wave tubes (TWTs) is described. In the framework of the Pierce model …