Robust Design Algorithm for High-Frequency Traveling-Wave Tube Slow-Wave Circuits

Abstract

An optimization algorithm has been developed to provide robust designs for slow-wave circuits of high frequency traveling-wave tubes. A simulated statistical performance test of a robust design for a 94-GHz folded waveguide circuit shows significantly less sensitivity to dimensional tolerance variations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADP022557

Entities

People

  • Christine T. Chevalier
  • Jeffrey D. Wilson

Organizations

  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Amplifiers
  • Annealing
  • Circuits
  • Efficiency
  • Electronic Amplifier
  • Electronics
  • Electrons
  • Frequency
  • Geometry
  • Optimization
  • Performance Tests
  • Phase Shift
  • Slow Wave Circuits
  • Traveling Wave Tubes
  • Traveling Waves
  • Vacuum Electronics

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Electronics Engineering