The cavity magnetron went on to be used throughout the war in RADAR systems both air and sea. Today, many military RADAR systems use klystrons or traveling wave tube amplifiers due to requirements ...

The cavity magnetron is a power RF oscillator device in which electrons are induced to move in a circular path through a tuned cavity, inducing a high-power RF field, and it lies at the heart of a ...

Invented during the height of the Battle of the Atlantic, the cavity magnetron ... previously used for radar defences. The post-war period saw a proliferation in magnetron applications, beginning ...