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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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  • High-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HIPIMS or HiPIMS, also known as high-power pulsed magnetron sputtering, HPPMS) is a method for physical vapor...
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    counter tube; another name was "magnetron beam-switching tube", referring to their derivation from a split-anode magnetron. Trochotrons were used in the...
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  • Magnetron is a 1988 video game published by Broderbund. Magnetron is a game in which the player is a Photon fighter pilot whose mission is to destroy...
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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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    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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    Yoji Ito (section Magnetron)
    engineer and scientist who had a major role in the Japanese development of magnetrons and the Radio Range Finder (RRF – the code name for a radar). Yoji Ito...
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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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    made contributions to the development of vacuum tubes, and invented the magnetron. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was born on 19...
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  • physicist and biophysicist, credited with radical improvement of the cavity magnetron, an essential component of centimetric wavelength radar, which was one...
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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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    German countermeasure to S band microwave radar produced by a cavity magnetron. Introduced in September 1943, it replaced Metox, which was incapable...
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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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    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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  • cavity magnetron and found it superior to the German split-anode magnetrons, particularly for its high power, high frequency performance. Magnetrons based...
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    stage name "Young Kermit". In 2014, he was signed to the record label Magnetron Music [nl] owned by De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig producer Bas Bron. Soon...
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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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    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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    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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    World War II. It was the first German radar to be based on the cavity magnetron, which eliminated the need for the large multiple dipole-based antenna...
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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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    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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    amplifier tube, called the triode. In 1920, Albert Hull developed the magnetron which would eventually lead to the development of the microwave oven in...
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  • The microwave operates at 2.45 GHz. This frequency is generated by a magnetron and discharges through a rectangular and a round waveguide. The discharge...
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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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  • 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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  • developed a more efficient way to manufacture magnetrons, increasing production from 100 to 2600 magnetrons per day. With his reputation and expertise,...
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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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