A new 60 GHz open-resonator technique for precision permittivity and loss-tangent measurement

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 626-630

  Afsar, Mohammed Nurul ^a,b   Ding, Hanyi ^b   Tourshan, Khaled ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavity length variation technique; Loss tangent; Millimeter wave; Open resonator; Permittivity; Refractive index

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010672342     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.769673     Document Type: Article

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