Breakdown phenomena in high-power klystrons

Journal Article · Fri Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1989 · IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Micro; (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/14.46331· OSTI ID:6778765

Vlieks, A E; Allen, M A; Callin, R S; Fowkes, W R; Hoyt, E W; Lebacqz, J V; Lee, T G ^[1]

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1. Stanford Univ., CA (USA)

In the course of developing new high-peak power klystrons at SLAC, high electric fields in several regions of these devices have become an important source of vacuum breakdown. In addition, a renewed interest in breakdown phenomena for ns pulse, MV/cm fields has been sparked by recent R and D work in the area of GW rf sources. The most important regions of electrical breakdown are in the output cavity gap area, the rf ceramic windows, and the gun ceramic insulator. The experiments and results on the breakdown in these regions will be discussed, as well as the solutions to alleviate this breakdown problem.

• OSTI ID: 6778765
• Journal Information: IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Micro; (USA), Journal Name: IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Micro; (USA) Vol. 24:6; ISSN 0272-1732; ISSN IEMID
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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