An apparatus for applying a soldering alloy to an element to be soldered including an open-channeled member having a receiving region for holding the element, a vacuum system connected to the member for creating a negative pressure through the open channel and at the receiving region
A traveling-wave tube has coupled cells in a periodic arrangement defined between apertured irises separated by respective spacers. The spacers have dielectric waveguides terminating in lossly loads to attenuate RF frequencies above the upper limit of the frequency to be amplified by the