Microwave deicing technology, as a new environmentally friendly deicing technology, can effectively solve the problem of the frequent icing of road surfaces in the winter, which affects the safety of traffic. To improve the efficiency of microwave de...
A method of deicing using microwave heating is proposed to make scientific and economical road deicing in a cold area, and to make up for deficiencies in the existing methods for melting snow and ice. This paper proposes to define microwave deicing e...
This article provides an overview of various microwave-assisted techniques, such as microwave-assisted extraction (MAE), microwave-assisted organic synthesis (MAOS), microwave-assisted pyrolysis (MAP), microwave-assisted hydrothermal treatment (MAHT)...
Microwave photonics is a promising and rapidly developing interdisciplinary field. It combines microwave and photonic techniques to generate, transmit, process, and manipulate microwave signals by using the advantages of broadband, high frequency, an...
The heptyl butanoate ester was synthesized from butanoic acid and heptanol in a heterogeneous medium in the presence of sulfonated activated carbon (AC-SO3H) catalyst particles subjected to microwave irradiation, which led to higher conversion yields...
Microwave heating is rapidly emerging as an effective and efficient tool in various technological and scientific fields. A comprehensive understanding of the fundamentals of microwave–matter interactions is the precondition for better utilization of...
Breast cancer is the leading cause of death among females, early diagnostic methods with suitable treatments improve the 5-year survival rates significantly. Microwave breast imaging has been reported as the most potential to become the alternative o...
Microwave heating technology is a promising method for asphalt pavement maintenance and de-icing; however, it requires the material to have a good microwave-absorbing ability and can also result in asphalt aging. It is therefore important to develop...
Microwave drying is a promising and effective way to drying and upgrading lignite. The influence of temperature (100–140 °C) and microwave power levels (500–800 W) on thin-layer drying characteristics of Zhaotong lignite under microwa...
Acrylamide (AA) is a neurotoxic and carcinogenic substance that has recently been discovered in food. One of the factors affecting its formation is the heat treatment method. This review discusses the microwave heating as one of the methods of therma...
Microwave-induced rock fracture is one of the promising approaches of achieving non-blasting continuous mining and assisted mechanical rock breaking. It is of great theoretical and practical significance to study the temperature effect and fracture c...
A unique chemical analytical approach is proposed based on the integration of chemical radiophysics with electrochemistry at the catalytically-active surface. This approach includes integration of: radiofrequency modulation polarography with platinum...
Moisture content at harvest is a key parameter that impacts quality and how well the cotton crop can be stored without degrading before processing. It is also a key parameter of interest for harvest time field trials as it can directly influence the...
A dual-frequency plasma source has many advantages in applications. In this paper, a dual-frequency microwave plasma source is presented. This microwave plasma source is based on a coaxial transmission line without the resonator, and it can be operat...
Zeolites and metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are crystalline porous materials characterized by highly ordered pore structures. Their fabrication into membranes has demonstrated significant potential for use in separation processes involving liq...
This paper reports the possibility of changing the size of zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) aggregates through a change of synthesis parameters. The effect of the changed power of microwave heating on the properties of ZnO NPs obtained by the micro...
The microwave-induced acceleration of photocatalytic reactions was discovered serendipitously in the late 1990s. The activity of photocatalysts is enhanced significantly by both microwave radiation and UV light. Particularly relevant, other than as a...
The (1–x)Ca0.61La0.26TiO3-xNd(Mg0.5Ti0.5)O3 [(1–x)CLT-xNMT, x = 0.35~0.60] ceramics were prepared via microwave sintering. The effects of sintering temperature and composition on the phase formation, microstructure, and microwave dielectr...
This research aims to deepen the understanding of the interaction mechanisms between microwave and matter in a metal-ceramic system based on in situ synchrotron radiation computed tomography. A special internal “core-shell” microstructure was discove...
We investigate theoretically the use of an electron in a Penning trap as a detector of single microwave photons. At the University of Sussex we are developing a chip Penning trap technology, designed to be integrated within quantum circuits. Microwav...
This review article focuses on the application of microwave-assisted techniques in various processes, including microwave-assisted extraction, microwave-assisted pyrolysis, microwave-assisted acid hydrolysis, microwave-assisted organosolv, and microw...
The ongoing development of high-temperature processes with the use of microwaves requires new microwave absorbers that are useful at these temperatures. In this study, we propose Al4SiC4 powders as important and efficient microwave absorbers. We inve...
In the food industry, research into the characteristics of microwave-heated materials has focused on dielectric properties. However, the lack of studies on microwave-absorbing properties has hindered the application of microwave technology. The aim o...
In the last two decades, the application of microwave heating to the processing of materials has to become increasingly widespread. Microwave-assisted foaming processes show promise for industrial commercialization due to the potential advantages tha...
Microwaves are a highly utilized electromagnetic wave, used across a range of industries including food processing, communications, in the development of novel medical treatments and biosensor diagnostics. Microwaves have known thermal interactions a...
Microwave sources based on ultrastable lasers and optical frequency combs (OFCs) exhibit ultralow phase noise and ultrahigh-frequency stability, which are important for many applications. Herein, we present a microwave source that is phase-locked to...
Medical imaging techniques, including X-ray mammography, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging, play a crucial role in the timely identification and monitoring of breast cancer. However, these conventional imaging modalities have their limitatio...
The effect of microwave activation on the properties of oxidation roasting for molybdenite was investigated under the protection of inert gas, and the specific surface area, the oxidation properties, lattice constant, microstructure, and shape of mol...
Microwave photonic (MWP) systems exploit the advantages of photonics, especially with regards to ultrabroad bandwidth and adaptability, features that are significantly more challenging to obtain in the electronic domain. Thus, MWP systems can be used...
The first production of defibrillated celluloses from microalgal biomass using acid-free, TEMPO-free and bleach-free hydrothermal microwave processing is reported. Two routes were explored: i. direct microwave process of native microalgae (“standard”...
A microwave photonic converter based on microwave pre-upconversion is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. Only a single Mach–Zehnder modulator (MZM) is used in the converter system so that the complexity and bandwidth limiting of the link...
This study analyzed the effects of thermohydrolysis on the anaerobic conversion efficiency of lignocellulosic biomass, comparing conventional and microwave heating methods. The research aimed to identify the optimal temperature and duration for bioma...
This study presents various microwave reactor designs specifically engineered for continuous microwave CO2 desorption, marking a significant advancement in microwave-heating systems. This study explored both horizontal and vertical continuous microwa...
Nowadays microwave radiation is being researched to produce biodiesel from different raw materials due to the many advantages that this technology presents compared to traditional transesterification, such as shorter reaction times and less amount of...
In this study, we have compared different Rydberg atom-based microwave electrometry techniques under the same experimental conditions and using the same Rydberg states (
A copper helical coil antenna was developed, characterized, and optimized for 2.45 GHz operations supplied by a microwave semiconductor oscillator. The application field of interest is laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy enhanced by microwave. Simul...
The application and advantages of variable frequency microwaves (VFM; range, 5.85–6.65 GHz) are reported for the first time in microwave chemistry, particularly when carrying out reactions catalyzed by metallic conductive catalysts so as to avo...
Catalytic reactions in producing biofuels often face issues such as low product yield, low selectivity to preferred products and serious environmental issues which leads to the exploration of green technologies. Microwave technology is one of the gre...
In this paper, a series of electromagnetically-induced-transparent (EIT) spectra of different Rydberg states, controlled by microwaves, in rubidium (Rb) thermal vapor are presented. The novel evolution regularity for different Rydberg states can be f...
This work aimed to study the effect of ultrasound-assisted (UAE), microwave-assisted (MAE), and ultrasound-microwave-assisted (UMAE) methods for pectin extraction from industrial tomato waste. The overall performance index from the fuzzy analytical m...
Microwave ablation is recognized as a minimally invasive, fast-recovery treatment for destroying cancer cells using the heat generated by microwave energy. Despite the unquestionable benefits of microwave ablation, the interaction of the microwave ap...
This paper presents an extensive review of the scientific literature associated with various microwave pyrolysis applications in waste to energy engineering. It was established that microwave-heated pyrolysis processes offer a number of advantages ov...
Effect of low power (90 W) microwave (MW) radiation (2450 MHz) on bacterial growth and pigment production was studied in three different bacteria. Microwave exposure of 2–6 min duration was able to alter growth and pigment production (prodigiosin pro...
Studies on dispersing nanoparticles in base fluid to elevate its essential and critical properties have evolved significantly in the recent decade. Alongside the conventional dispersion techniques used for nanofluid synthesis, microwave energy at 2.4...
The objective of this study was to evaluate microwave heating enhancements offered by iron/iron oxide nanoparticles dispersed within tissue-mimicking media for improving efficacy of microwave thermal therapy. The following dopamine-coated magnetic na...
Multitude applications of photonic devices and technologies for the generation and manipulation of arbitrary and random microwave waveforms, at unprecedented processing speeds, have been proposed in the literature over the past three decades. This cl...
Road icing in winter brings challenges to traffic safety, and microwave heating and deicing technology is an effective method with the advantages of high efficiency and environmental protection. Magnetite has been widely used as a microwave-absorbing...
Microwave discharges in dielectric liquids are a relatively new area of plasma physics and plasma application. This review cumulates results on microwave discharges in wide classes of liquid hydrocarbons (alkanes, cyclic and aromatic hydrocarbons). M...
The increasing demand for multifunctional devices, the use of cognitive wireless technology to solve the frequency resource shortage problem, as well as the capabilities and operational flexibility necessary to meet ever-changing environment result i...
A novel 10-Watt-Level high-power microwave rectifier with an inverse Class-F harmonic network for microwave power transmission (MPT) is presented in this paper. The high-power microwave rectifier circuit comprises four sub-rectifier circuits, a 1 &ti...
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