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Let’s talk about how microwaves actually work, which we have a whole video about, but here’s the tldw version: this thing, a ...

Jefferson Lab Senior SRF Accelerator Physicist Haipeng Wang displays the core of a cavity magnetron during an April 2024 lab tour. NEWPORT NEWS, VA - A pocket-size gizmo that puts the “pop” in ...

Researchers funded by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research have invented a new type of magnetron that may be used to defeat enemy electronics. A magnetron is type of vacuum tube used as the ...

It may seem like a holdout against the solid-state world, but the vacuum-tube magnetron is still at the heart of every consumer microwave oven and many commercial ones used for cooking or drying.

During World War II, workers at technology company Raytheon were designing and creating the magnetron tubes used in U.S. and British radars. Standing in front of one of these magnetrons one day, ...

This article was produced for RFHIC by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine's board of editors. RFHIC's co-founder and CEO, David Cho (left), and RFHIC's co-founder ...

THE origin and excellence of the Radiation Laboratory Series of monographs is now Well known, and can need little in the Way of introduction to the physicists and engineers on both sides of the ...