Our aim in this book is to present a bird's-eye view of microwave tubes (MWTs) which continue to be important despite competitive incursions from solid-state devices (SSDs). We have presented a broad and introductory survey which we hope the readers would be encouraged to read rather than going through lengthier books, and subsequently explore the field of MWTs further in selected areas of relevance to their respective interests. We hope that the present book would motivate newcomers to pursue research in MWTs and apprise them as well as decision makers of the salient features and prospects of as well as the trends of progress in MWTs. The scope of ever expanding applications of MWTs in the high power and high frequency regime will sustain and intensify the research and development in MWTs in coming years.

Table of Contents: Preface / Foreword / Acknowledgments / Author biographies / 1. Introduction / 2. Microwave tubes: classification, applications and trends / 3. Basic enabling concepts / 4. Formation, confinement and collection of an electron beam / 5. Analytical aspects of beam-absent and beam-present slow-wave and fast-wave interaction structures