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.
A pocket-size gizmo that puts the "pop" in microwave popcorn could soon fuel particle accelerators of the future. The small but mighty device is a magnetron—a mashup of the words "magnetic" and ...
DTI introduces PowerMod solid-state magnetron transmitters delivering tunable pulse wave control for aerospace and defense radar systems. Outputs from 3 to 50 kilowatts peak RF power with precision ...