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GK QUESTION#3141

Which listed thermionic electron-beam vacuum tube is used as a microwave amplifier based on velocity modulation?

  1. ANeutrino
  2. BBeam tetrodes
  3. CKlystronCorrect answer
  4. DThyratron
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C. Klystron

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A klystron is an electron-beam vacuum tube used in microwave amplification. Velocity modulation produces electron bunching and energy transfer to a radio-frequency field.

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