Journal
ELECTRONICS
Volume 11, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/electronics11030384
Keywords
microstrip line; slow-wave structure (SWS); traveling-wave tube (TWT); Ka-band
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Funding
- Basic Science Center Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [61988102]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [61771117]
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This paper proposes a new slow-wave structure for microstrip line traveling-wave tubes, which increases the output power by widening the transverse width and achieves a wide bandwidth and low phase velocity. The designed input/output structure exhibits good transmission characteristics, and particle-in-cell simulation results show that the tube has high output power and electronic efficiency.
To increase the output power of microstrip line traveling-wave tubes, a staggered rings microstrip line (SRML) slow-wave structure (SWS) based on a U-shaped mender line (U-shaped ML) SWS and a ring-shaped microstrip line (RML) SWS has been proposed in this paper. Compared with U-shaped ML SWS and RML SWS, SRML SWS has a wider transverse width, which means SRML SWS has a larger area for beam-wave interaction. The simulation results show that SRML SWS has a wider bandwidth than U-shaped ML SWS and a lower phase velocity than RML SWS. Input/output couplers, which consist of microstrip probes and transition sections, have been designed to transmit signals from a rectangular waveguide to the SWS; the simulation results present that the designed input/output structure has good transmission characteristics. Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation results indicate that the SRML TWT has a maximum output of 322 W at 32.5 GHz under a beam voltage of 9.7 kV and a beam current of 380 mA, and the corresponding electronic efficiency is around 8.74%. The output power is over 100 W in the frequency range of 27 GHz to 38 GHz.
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