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 ...

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 ...

Magnetrons are high-power vacuum electronic devices that convert direct current into coherent microwave radiation. Traditionally employed in radar and heating applications, their intrinsic advantages ...