An Evaluation of Heat Dissipation Capability of Slow-Wave Structures

A new experimental evaluation method is presented for evaluating and comparing the heat dissipation capability of the slow-wave structures (SWSs) of helix traveling-wave tube (TWT). The practicality and simplicity of the evaluation method have been validated through experimental tests in some components with different assembling and processing methods, such as the cold stuffing, the heat shrink, the hot insertion, the molybdenum wrapping methods, and so on. Experimental results demonstrate that our evaluation method can be used effectively and conveniently to estimate and compare the thermal dissipation capability of the SWSs of the helix TWT