Due in large part to the overwhelming success of microwave ovens for home use, microwave processing is seen by the unwary as a panacea for all heating applications. Microwave energy is perceived to ...

Microwave discharge phenomena encompass the generation and manipulation of plasmas or microplasmas within materials or at material interfaces through the application of high‐frequency electromagnetic ...

With the market growing for carbon-fibre reinforced plastics, production processes need to be improved to reduce cycle times and to improve the quality assurance process, especially where aerospace ...

Microwave ovens are a staple of modern kitchens, using microwave radiation to heat food quickly from the inside out. However, this domestic appliance can also be used to synthesize various porous ...

Scientists have developed a fast and energy efficient way to produce advanced carbon materials capable of capturing carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas driving climate change. The new method ...

Microwave cold sintering process (MW-CSP) was used to densify NaCl, KDP, MgMoO₄, Li₂MoO₄, and TiO₂ ceramics. Under the fundamental densification mechanisms dominated by the coupling of the transient ...

New systems enable precision materials engineering in high-aspect-ratio 3D logic and memory chip structuresCentris™ Spectral™ SiN ALD leverages ...

A multi-institutional team of optoelectronic and materials engineers in China has developed a type of metamaterial that is nearly invisible across visible light, microwave and infrared spectra. In ...

A 4D-printed microwave absorber uses heat to reshape itself and strengthen internal energy loss, enabling tunable shielding after fabrication.

Microwave processing of materials is a technology that can provide the material processor with a new, powerful, and significantly different tool to process materials that may not be amenable to ...

Microwave processing of metallic materials harnesses electromagnetic radiation in the gigahertz range to induce rapid, volumetric heating within metals, metal powders and alloys. Unlike conventional ...