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 ...

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.

The film discusses the function and operation of microwave oscillators in radar systems, focusing on the importance of oscillators like the magnetron and reflex velocity modulated tubes. It explains ...

In a story ripped right out of Terminator, but with the slightly funnier twist that the killer robot is a microwave oven, one self-professed “Mad Scientist” is asking a very important question: how ...

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 ...

Microwaves: The savior of university students who, like me, got off the meal plan and have no idea how to cook. The dim yellow glow and lackadaisical turn of the glass dish fill me with joy like ...