Magnetron

The great advance in magnetron design was the cavity magnetron or electron-resonance magnetron, which works on entirely different principles.

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Cavity magnetron Cutaway drawing of a cavity magnetron from 1984.

The first form of magnetron tube, the split-anode magnetron, was invented by Albert Hull in 1920, but it wasn't capable of high frequencies and was of little use.

The first major improvement was the split-anode magnetron, also known as a negative-resistance magnetron.

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While working on magnetron production for the military during World War II, physicist and Raytheon employee Percy Spencer discovered that a candy bar in his pocket for an invention based on the strange accident, and the microwave oven was born.

A similar magnetron with a different section removed.

Centimetric radar, made possible by the cavity magnetron, allowed for the detection of much smaller objects and the use of much smaller antennas.

Furthermore, ovens are equipped with redundant safety interlocks, which remove power from the magnetron if the door is opened.

Heating Magnetron from a microwave oven with magnet in its mounting box.

However, there are still a few applications for which tubes are preferred to semiconductors; for example, the magnetron used in microwave ovens, and certain high-frequency amplifiers.

Hull's magnetron was not originally intended to generate VHF (very-high-frequency) electromagnetic waves.

In 1941, the problem of frequency instability was solved by coupling ("strapping") alternate cavities within the magnetron.

In addition to the magnetron (right), it contains a TR (transmit/receive) switch tube and the superheterodyne receiver front end, a 2K25 reflex klystron tube local oscillator and a 1N21 germanium diode mixer.

In practical use these factors have been overcome, or merely accepted, and there are today thousands of magnetron aviation and marine radar units in service.

In some applications, for example a marine radar mounted on a recreational vessel, a radar with a magnetron output of 2 to 4 kilowatts is often found mounted very near an area occupied by crew or passengers.

Instead of abandoning the magnetron due to its frequency instability, they sampled the output signal and synchronized their receiver to whatever frequency was actually being generated.

It was noticed that when the magnetron was operating at the critical value, it would emit energy in the radio frequency spectrum.

Obsolete 9 GHz magnetron tube and magnets from a Soviet aircraft radar.