TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND RADIO ENGINEERING - 2011 Vol. 70,
No 3 		 

 

 

 

INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE MECHANISMS FOR “COLD” TRIGGERING OF SECONDARY ELECTRON-EMISSION CATHODE MAGNETRONS


N.I. Avtonomov, D.M. Vavriv, & S.V. Sosnitsky
Institute of Radio Astronomy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
4, Krasnoznamennaya St., Kharkiv 61002, Ukraine
Address all correspondence to N.I. Avtonomov E-mail: avtomat@rian.kharkov.ua

Abstract
The mechanisms for excitation of auto oscillations in magnetrons with secondary-emission cathode with no use of an auxiliary thermionic cathode have been theoretically analyzed. The process of setting up self-excited oscillations with an external microwave (MW) signal and using a modulated anode voltage pulse have been examined. The conditions under which the above mechanisms for exciting self-excited oscillations are defined. The results of the comparison between the numerical simulation and the experimental data obtained for mm-wave magnetrons are presented.

KEY WORDS:magnetron, cold triggering, life time

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