The electrical conductivities of steel and other candidate materials for shrouds in a beam-waveguide antenna system

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 77-83

  Otoshi, Tom Y ^a,b   Franco, Manuel M ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; STEEL STRUCTURES; STEEL TESTING; WAVEGUIDES;

BEAM WAVEGUIDE ANTENNA SYSTEM SHROUDS; DEEP SPACE NETWORK;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 0030083399     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.481315     Document Type: Article

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