Experimental evidence of redistribution of fields during processing in a high-power microwave cavity

A sensing probe has been introduced to profile the magnetic fields in a 2.45 GHz, high-power single-mode microwave cavity. The treatment of a ferrite sample inside the cavity has established that, during the heating process, there is an unusual concentration of a magnetic field around the sample. During field heating, intense magnetic fields have been monitored, and are analogous to the redistribution of an electric field reported by Riedel and Svoboda [Proceedings of the Eighth Ampere Conference and Microwave Heating (2001)] in their simulation studies on microwave sintering. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.