Could bacon microwaves fry IEDs?
1,031 views · Published 21 August 2012 · 3:37 · Indexed 10 October 2026
Channel: Michigan Engineering · 2012 · Science & Technology
U-M researchers are developing methods for disabling Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) using electromagnetic waves. Through the use of a recirculating planar magnetron, engineers in the Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences department hope to jam or burn out the electronics in IEDs or vehicles that pose a danger to soldiers in the field. The researchers are developing two patents, one that utilizes a custom device, and another that uses an off-the-shelf magnetron typically used for cooking bacon. ABOUT THE PROFESSOR: Professor Gilgenbach (http://www-ners.engin.umich.edu/people/engin/gilgenbach.html) is the Chair and and Chihiro Kikuchi Collegiate Professor of the Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Department (http://ners.engin.umich.edu/). He specializes in Pulsed-power-driven inertial confinement fusion research, intense electron beam dynamics, high power microwave generation, magneto-Rayleigh Taylor instability, plasma effects in pulsed accelerators.
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