Microwave Tubes in the News

Yesterday there was a news item on the Business Wire about high powered microwave tubes, including those sold by Penta Labs. According to recent research, the microwave tube market although highly misunderstood and underrepresented, is estimated at over $1 billion.

Not this kind of microwave--

We're talking giant, industrial size and strength microwave oven. The kind that processes thousands of meatballs a minute. That means tomorrow morning when you crunch into your bacon you can be grateful for microwave tube technology.

The lead researcher is quoted as saying, “These specialized vacuum electron devices may at first seem anachronistic. But in some cases there is no other way to generate such high levels of RF power within an acceptably small space. Certain microwave and millimeter wave VEDs can generate megawatts, and it would take tens of thousands of transistors to do that.”

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