A heat sink apparatus for a microwave magnetron includes a thermal conduction seat, a first heat-fin set, and at least one first heat pipe. One end of the first heat pipe protrudes into the thermal conduction seat, while another end of the first heat pipe protrudes into the first heat-fin set. An antenna of the microwave magnetron is to penetrate through the thermal conduction seat.

A microwave energy source that generates a microwave energy is disclosed. The microwave energy source has an on-state and an off-state. A control circuit is coupled to the microwave energy source and includes an output to generate a control signal that adjusts a pulse frequency of the microwave energy. A voltage generator applies a non-zero voltage to the microwave energy source during the off-state. A frequency and a duty cycle of the non-zero voltage is based on a frequency and a duty cycle of the control signal. A waveguide is coupled to the microwave energy source. The waveguide has a supply gas inlet that receives a supply gas, a reaction zone that generates a plasma, a process inlet that injects a raw material into the reaction zone, and an outlet that outputs a powder based on a mixture of the supply gas and the raw material within the plasma.

An arrangement of conduction-cooled travelling wave tubes includes multiple travelling wave tubes mounted on a common base, wherein the travelling wave tubes are thermally connected to the base so that during operation of the travelling wave tubes the base forms a heat sink for the travelling wave tubes, and the base is designed to accommodate multiple travelling wave tubes in terms of their dimensions along their beam axes so as to increase the number of travelling wave tubes per surface area unit of the base.

A system for manufacturing purified shellac floss from crude shellac includes a spinner unit, and a rotatable head with a cavity to accommodate the crude shellac. A microwave generator unit is configured to supply microwave radiation to the spinner unit. A collection unit has a side wall and an end wall defining an interior volume and is configured to collect the purified shellac floss.

Anti-multipactor coating deposited on an RF or MW component, by surface texturing of such a coating by laser.

The invention relates to a formation method by laser ablation, on a metal substrate, of an anti-multipactor coating whose constituent material is chosen from amongst the metals of column 10 or column 11 of the Mendeleev table or an alloy of these metals and whose texture comprises one or more patterns of cavities repeated at regular intervals, the interval pitch between two adjacent cavities being in the range between 0 and 100 m.

A heat sink apparatus for a microwave magnetron includes a thermal conduction seat, a first heat-fin set, and at least one first heat pipe. One end of the first heat pipe protrudes into the thermal conduction seat, while another end of the first heat pipe protrudes into the first heat-fin set. An antenna of the microwave magnetron is to penetrate through the thermal conduction seat.

An anisotropic conductive film that can be produced in high productivity and can reduce a short circuit occurrence ratio has a first conductive particle layer in which conductive particles are dispersed at a predetermined depth in a film thickness direction, and a second conductive particle layer in which conductive particles are dispersed at a depth different from that in the first conductive particle layer. In the respective conductive particle layers, the closest distances between the adjacent conductive particles are 2 times or more the average particle diameters of the conductive particles.

Provided is a cooling block formed in a columnar shape in an outer periphery of an anode cylindrical body of a high power industrial magnetron, in which the cooling block includes, at different positions in a vertical direction, two or more flow paths through which refrigerant flows, and the flow paths closest to each other in the vertical direction are connected to each other by at least one or more connection flow paths in the cooling block.

Accelerator apparatus (100) for accelerating charged particles (2) with pulsed radiation includes horn-shaped coupling device (10) with at least one horn coupler (11, 15) having input aperture (12), electrically conductive walls (13) and output aperture (14), wherein pulsed radiation is received at input aperture and focused towards output aperture, and waveguide device (20) coupled with the output aperture and configured for receiving focused pulsed radiation. Waveguide device includes injection section (21) for providing charged particles and subjecting them to acceleration by pulsed radiation in injection section, and lateral output port (23) for releasing accelerated charged particles along particle acceleration direction. The at least one horn coupler receives linearly polarized single cycle pulses (1) including broadband frequency spectrum shaped as a linearly polarized plane wave and focuses linearly polarized single cycle pulses. Waveguide device has non-resonant broadband transmission characteristic. Furthermore, charged particle gun and method of accelerating charged particles are described.

Magnetron configurations that provide more efficient and/or more uniform cooling characteristics and methods for forming the magnetrons are provided. The magnetron includes one or more flow directing structures disposed between parallel cooling fins. The flow directing structures direct air flow across various surfaces of the cooling fins that otherwise would be obstructed by magnetron components, reducing the incidence and/or magnitude of hot spots on the cooling fins and/or on other magnetron components. The flow directing structures also adjust flow rates to improve cooling efficiency.