Title :
The more things change the more they stay the same a retrospective and prospective look at TWTs
Author :
Carruthers, Malcolm J.
Author_Institution :
Comtech Xicom Technol. Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA
Abstract :
Having left the TWT industry in the mid 1990´s after a 15 year career as a Vacuum Tube Engineer this paper looks back at what changes have occurred and where the industry is headed in the future. As technology continues to advance giving us smaller, faster and more powerful computers has the vacuum tube industry kept up or have we simply increased frequency and power levels without necessarily advancing the processes, materials and manufacturability of the devices?
Keywords :
travelling wave tubes; TWT industry; frequency levels; power levels; travelling wave tubes; vacuum tube engineer; vacuum tube industry; Assembly; Cathodes; Computational modeling; Computers; Electron tubes; Industries; Solid modeling; Cathode; Computer Modeling; Electron Gun; Helix Traveling Wave Tube; Multi Stage Collector;
Conference_Titel :
Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), 2012 IEEE Thirteenth International
Conference_Location :
Monterey, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0188-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0187-9
DOI :
10.1109/IVEC.2012.6262232
