Introduction
The number of applications for the industrial microwave (2,45GHz, 915MHz and 5,8GHz) is permanently increasing. In the industry, in research centers, and in universities is microwave energy increasingly recognized and new applications are found almost daily. Drying of goods and plasma generation are hereby the most common applications. This page shall be a source of information for the novice as well as for the expert and a place to exchange ideas around the subject industrial microwave. In addition you will find references and sources for the various microwave components and microwave generators. No matter if you just look for replacement parts or if you want to build new equipment, we can help you finding the right product. Just send us an email with your questions or suggestions for this web site. Please feel free to visit and to add your name and comments to our guestbook.

Our Mission
This website shall help to promote the growth and usage of the industrial microwave. You will find here knowledgeable people for your questions to this subject. Your search for microwave components and generators should have a satisfying end here. The following pages may display photographs or data sheets of products, which had been created by the manufacturer or by an agency on their behalf. The publication of those in this web site does only serve the originally intended purpose to promote the products to a large interested internet community. Goal is to increase the sales of those products by offering as much service as possible. We will get you in contact with the buying locations for those products. We keep constantly updating this web site, meaning new products or valuable information will be added and if possible, data sheets for downloading will be supplied too.

Is Microwave Dangerous?
The microwave shall not be mixed up with x-ray radiation or radioactivity, which is also called ionizing radiation. Microwave is an electromagnetic wave, generated in a high frequency generator, which is tuned at a fixed oscillating frequency. The microwave is only present as long the generator is being operated.
Naturally radioactivity can not be switched off. The x-rays pass through the human body due to its very high energetically velocity and they can damage the cells or the genes. At radiologists the switched x-ray energy (also called roentgen) is carefully chosen to obtain a picture of body parts at minimized risk of damage.
A too high energy density of microwave can harm a human body up to irreparable damages, if he is exposed to the microwave due to an accident or handling mistake. The eyes are most endangered. Local heat up due to the exposed microwave energy would lead to blindness. Different to the higher frequency infrared or heat waves, which the skin of human body is sensing as heat, the microwave is intruding a few centimeter into the body, without being immediately sensed by the skin as heat. The energy level of the intruding microwave is exponentially decreasing against zero by absorption (conversion into heat). Until this in the body generated heat is reaching by conduction the heat sensitive cells of the skin, a potential damage can already being done to the body, if the energy level of the microwave is too high. A small amount of microwave energy is being use at doctors offices in diathermy application.
The limit for the maximal permitted energy density of microwave to which a human body can be exposed without any detectable harm, is set after many tests at 5 mW/cm².
Per definition the maximal microwave leakage energy of a microwave generator shall not be greater than the 5 mW/cm² at a distance of 5 cm from any possible radiating location at the surface of a microwave generator. Because non focused microwave behaves in its expansion similar to the light from a light bulb, the energy density is decreasing at a level, which is reversed proportional to the square of the distance from the source.

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