The PNAS article has more photos and videos https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1818350116 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1818350116 Looking online ap

The PNAS article has more photos and videos https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1818350116 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1818350116 Looking online apparently this damages the magnetron, but no one has found out why precisely. There are some pop-culture explanations that the reflected energy overloads the magnetron and so on, but I don't think anyone has done the parallel what this team has done to actually say what happens to the magnetron. The PI has a website https://www.aaronslepkov.com/research https://www.aaronslepkov.com/research but nothing new about this stuff there. I'm curious. We know now why the plasma forms. I hope they're able to explain why the magnetron breaks.