klystron

IPA: kɫˈɪstrʌn

(physics) an electron tube used to amplify microwave-frequency electromagnetic radiation.

Examples of "klystron" in Sentences

The electron microscope is one, the klystron, which supplies power to radar systems another.
It housed enormous banks of klystron batteries and the air seemed to vibrate with a mechanical hum.
To do so they combined the positive aspects of a magnetron (its high power output) and of a klystron tube (a device that used resonant cavities to amplify microwaves).
The beam transmitting THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL is by redundant high-powered klystron amplifiers connected by a traveling waveguide to a five meter parabolic dish antenna.
Working at Columbia University, he and graduate student James Gordon built a contraption in which a generator called a klystron, emitting radiation at microwave frequencies, excites a beam of ammonia molecules.
I did however get cancer that looks like it might be coming back, and my lawyers say that it's probably from being exposed to ionizing radiation from working on unshielded klystron tubes that had 30,000 volts of electricity running through them and glowed eerily green, but that has yet to be proven in court.