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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE
Volume 37, Issue 10, Pages 2031-2040Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2009.2028428
Keywords
Attractors; breakdown threshold; coaxial lines; multipactor; traveling wave (TW); standing wave (SW); mixed wave (MW)
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- Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, Spanish Government [TEC 2007/67630-CO3-01]
- Generalitat Valenciana (Spain) [IIARCO/2004/20, IIARCO/2004/21, IIARCO/2004/22]
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In this paper, we present a numerical model for predicting the multipactor breakdown effect in coaxial transmission lines. To validate this method, we have first compared our results with numerical data from other theoretical studies and with experimental measurements. Then, we have investigated the multipactor phenomena in coaxial lines considering three kinds of RF signals: traveling, standing, and mixed waves. From this paper, we conclude that different breakdown thresholds are obtained for any of the considered RF excitations under high values of frequency x gap product. This effect is attributed to the existence of regions with zero (or very low levels) electric field amplitude in the propagation direction, where electrons are absorbed before the discharge occurs.
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