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General Awareness Question Regarding Microwave Engineering 1. A klystron is a specialized linear-beam vacuum tube, invented in 1937 by American electrical
engineers Russel and Sigurd Varian, which is used as an amplifier for high frequencies, from UHF radio frequencies up into the microwave range. Low-power klystrons are used as local oscillators in super heterodyne radar receivers, while high-power klystrons are used as output tubes in UHF television transmitters, microwave relay, satellite communication, and radar transmitters, and to generate the drive power for modern particle accelerators.

Russe Varian

Sigurd Varian

2 The Gunn diode is based on the Gunn effect, and both are named for the physicist J. B. Gunn who, at IBM in 1962, discovered the effect because he refused to accept inconsistent experimental results in gallium arsenide as "noise", and tracked down the cause.

3. The magic tee was originally developed in World War II, and first published by W. A. Tyrell (of Bell Labs) in a 1947 IRE paper.[1] Robert L. Kyhl and Bob Dicke independently created magic tees around the same time.

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4. One of the first horn antennas was constructed in 1897 by Indian radio researcher Jagadish Chandra Bose in his pioneering experiments with microwaves.[4][5] In the 1930s the first experimental research (Southworth and Barrow, 1936) and theoretical analysis (Barrow and Chu, 1939) of horns as antennas was done.

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