Analysis of Radiation from an Open-Ended Coaxial Line into Stratified Dielectrics

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 1994, Pages 1261-1267

  Bakhtiari, Sasan ^a   Ganchev, Stoyan I ^a   Zoughi, Reza ^a  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION;

APERTURE ADMITTANCE; OPEN ENDED COAXIAL LINES; RADIATION ANALYSIS; STRATIFIED DIELECTRICS;

COAXIAL CABLES;

EID: 0028466816     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.299765     Document Type: Article

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