Abstract :
More than 650 delegates from 20 countries (including several from behind the Iron Curtain and from the People´s Republic of China) attended the Fifth International Conference on Microwave Tubes which was held in Paris, France, September 14–18. A number of U.S. microwave-tube manufacturers and laboratories, as well as several American universities, were represented among the 135 papers constituting the technical program. The conference was sponsored by the Fédération Nationale des Industries Électroniques and was organized by the Société Française des Ingénieurs et Techniciens du Vide and the Société Française des Électroniciens et des Radioélectriciens.
