Which risk increases when a high-power microwave waveguide operates near dielectric breakdown threshold?

💡 Explanation

Arcing across the waveguide initiates *dielectric breakdown*, because intense electric fields accelerate electrons, ionizing gas molecules, therefore creating a conductive plasma that absorbs or reflects microwave energy, rather than enabling its propagation, because impedance matching addresses power transfer under normal operation.

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