An interlock switch structure and a microwave oven are disclosed. The interlock switch structure includes a substrate, a sliding latch, a tactile disk member, a door hook, a first elastic member, and multiple micro-switches. The substrate is provided with a chute structure, the sliding latch slidably matches with a chute of the chute structure, the sliding latch is provided with a sliding surface to match with the door hook. The tactile disk member is pivotally communicated with the substrate, the micro-switch is located on a periphery of the tactile disk member, and contact points of the micro-switches are toward the tactile disk member. The tactile disk member is provided with a seesaw to match with the door hook; a circumferential surface of the tactile disk member is provided with a rotating surface to match with the sliding latch.

Embodiments disclosed herein include a housing for a source assembly. In an embodiment, the housing comprises a conductive body with a first surface and a second surface opposite from the first surface, and a plurality of openings through a thickness of the conductive body between the first surface and the second surface. In an embodiment, the housing further comprises a channel into the first surface of the conductive body, and a cover over the channel. In an embodiment, a first stem over the cover extends away from the first surface, and a second stem over the cover extends away from the first surface. In an embodiment, the first stem and the second stem open into the channel.

A microwave heating appliance includes a housing having interior walls with interior surfaces defining a cooking chamber for heating food, a microwave heating source configured to generate microwave radiation for heating the food, and a rapid heating plate disposed in the cooking chamber. The rapid heating plate includes a substrate having a hybrid coating disposed on thereon, with the hybrid coating configured to generate heat upon application of a magnetic field and upon absorption of the microwave radiation from the microwave heating source. The hybrid coating includes ferromagnetic nanowires and ferritic carbon nanotubes dispersed in a polymer to generate heat for transferring to food placed on the rapid heating plate in the cooking chamber.

An aerosol-generating device for generating an aerosol by microwave heating of an aerosol-forming substrate contained in a substrate portion of a cylindrical aerosol-generating article is provided, the aerosol-generating device including: a microwave generator configured to generate a microwave signal; a cylindrical microwave cavity configured to removably receive at least the substrate portion of the cylindrical aerosol-generating article; and a coaxial feed exciter operatively connected to the microwave generator and coupled to the cylindrical microwave cavity such as to feed the microwave signal into the cylindrical microwave cavity and excite at least one specific transverse magnetic mode or transverse electric mode within the cylindrical microwave cavity when the substrate portion of the cylindrical aerosol-generating article is received in the cylindrical microwave cavity. An aerosol-generating system including the aerosol-generating device and a cylindrical aerosol-generating article including a distal substrate portion containing an aerosol-forming substrate is also provided.