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Dependence of the power of a broadband microwave radiation generated by a low-voltage oscillator with virtual cathode (vircator) on the parameters of an external inhomogeneous magnetic field has been studied by numerical simulations using a two-dimensional model. It is established that there are optimum parameters of the generator (configuration of the external magnetic field, electron beam current) for which the output radiation power is maximum. A relationship between the optimum conditions of virtual cathode formation in the electron beam and the microwave generation regime is established.
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Original Russian Text © S.A. Kurkin, A.A. Koronovskii, A.E. Hramov, 2011, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2011, Vol. 37, No. 8, pp. 26–33.
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Kurkin, S.A., Koronovskii, A.A. & Hramov, A.E. Output microwave radiation power of low-voltage vircator with external inhomogeneous magnetic field. Tech. Phys. Lett. 37, 356–359 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785011040225
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