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Millimetre Waves from Mercury Arc Harmonic Generator
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Millimetre Waves from Mercury Arc Harmonic Generator

  • K. D. FROOME1 

Nature volume 186, page 959 (1960)Cite this article

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THE use of very small mercury arcs for the purpose of harmonic generation from a microwave input at 2.5 Gc./s. has already been described1. I wish now to report the preliminary results obtained with a driving frequency of 35 Gc./s.

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  1. Froome, K. D., Nature, 184, 808 (1959).

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FROOME, K. Millimetre Waves from Mercury Arc Harmonic Generator. Nature 186, 959 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186959a0

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