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    The cavity magnetron is a high-power vacuum tube used in early radar systems and subsequently in microwave ovens and in linear particle accelerators....
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    the pulsed laser deposition process. Sputtering sources often employ magnetrons that utilize strong electric and magnetic fields to confine charged plasma...
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    homogeneous, high-water-content food item. The development of the cavity magnetron in the United Kingdom made possible the production of electromagnetic...
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    aircraft interception radar based on the 9.1 cm wavelength, (3 GHz) cavity magnetron revealed that different objects have very different radar signatures;...
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    Early in World War II, physicists in the United Kingdom invented the magnetron, a specialized microwave-generating electron tube that markedly improved...
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    decisive factors for the victory of the Allies. A key development was the magnetron in the UK, which allowed the creation of relatively small systems with...
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    new technologies the UK had been developing. Among these was the cavity magnetron, a leap forward in the creation of microwaves that made them practical...
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  • Referring to one such British secret, a device known as a resonant cavity magnetron, American historian James Phinney Baxter III later wrote, "When the members...
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    period before and during World War II. A key development was the cavity magnetron in the United Kingdom, which allowed the creation of relatively small...
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    began in 1939 but was greatly sped after the introduction of the cavity magnetron in early 1940. This operated at 9.1 cm wavelength (3 GHz), much shorter...
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    advanced they were with some of the key technologies, particularly the magnetron. The US decided to send a team to Britain to help coordinate their efforts...
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    A magnetron trap of this type had been briefly discussed in J.R. Pierce's 1949 book, and I developed a simple description of the axial, magnetron, and...
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    influence of controlling electric or magnetic fields, and include the magnetron (used in microwave ovens), klystron, traveling-wave tube (TWT), and gyrotron...
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  • or VHF). In February 1940, Great Britain developed the resonant-cavity magnetron, capable of producing microwave power in the kilowatt range, opening the...
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    invention the only sources were the Barkhausen–Kurz tube and split-anode magnetron, which were limited to very low power. It was invented by the brothers...
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    Wings" (2023) "He Has Returned" (2024) June 2013 - Netherlands show with Magnetron. September - October 2013 - "The Epic Tour of Furious Thunder" European...
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    the Penning gauge (invented by Frans Michel Penning), and the inverted magnetron, also called a Redhead gauge. The major difference between the two is...
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    one of the first scientists in the United States to work on the cavity magnetron, which is used in microwave radar and microwave ovens. Born into a traditional...
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  • electronic auto parts. During World War II, Raytheon mass-manufactured magnetron tubes for use in microwave radar sets and then complete radar systems...
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    Modern microwave ovens have been designed to prevent damage to the cavity magnetron tube from microwave energy reflection, and aluminium packages designed...
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    used by the USAF containing a magnetron tube as transmitter. To improve the magnetron's frequency stability the magnetron tuning is driven by the AFC....
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    one of the walls of the cavity in or out, changing its size. The cavity magnetron is a vacuum tube with a filament in the center of an evacuated, lobed...
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    development shortly after the introduction of the cavity magnetron in early 1940. The magnetron allowed radar systems to operate at microwave frequencies...
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    Rook-L. A. Heuer; Stageberg; Chow; Rook; Heuer (1994). "Influence of rf magnetron sputtering conditions on the magnetic, crystalline, and electrical properties...
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    was first raised in early 1940 as part of UK research using the cavity magnetron as the basis of a microwave-frequency radar system. They abandoned this...
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    direction with some frequency ω m {\displaystyle \omega _{m}} , called the magnetron frequency. An ion will also have a third characteristic frequency ω z...
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    substrate temperature, background pressure, and target-substrate distance. In magnetron sputtering the substrate is cooled for deposition. In chemical vapor deposition...
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  • responses and detects cheating. To disrupt the Greco, they plan to use a magnetron disguised as a cell phone as a gift to Bank. They also obtain the drilling...
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    HEAFs such as spraying, laser cladding, electrodeposition, and magnetron sputtering. Magnetron sputtering technique is the most-used method to fabricate the...
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    2010). "Origin of damages in OLED from Al top electrode deposition by DC magnetron sputtering". Organic Electronics. 11 (2): 322–331. doi:10.1016/j.orgel...
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