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Survey of existing designs of millimeter wave band magnetrons

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The paper considers main directions of development of pulsed magnetrons of millimeter wave band and presents the main characteristics of such devices produced by different enterprises. This paper is intended for a wide circle of researchers and engineers using the millimeter band magnetrons in their investigations and developments.

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Original Russian Text © V.D. Naumenko, 2017, published in Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radioelektronika, 2017, Vol. 60, No. 4, pp. 181–205.

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Naumenko, V.D. Survey of existing designs of millimeter wave band magnetrons. Radioelectron.Commun.Syst. 60, 141–160 (2017). https://doi.org/10.3103/S073527271704001X

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