Coaxial to circular waveguide transition as high-precision easy-to-handle measuring cell for the broad band dielectric spectrometry of liquids

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 525-534

  Gottmann O ^a,b   Kaatze, U ^a   Petong, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UHDE GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIQUIDS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BROADBAND DIELECTRIC SPECTROMETRY; DIELECTRIC INTERFACE; DIELECTRIC MEASUREMENT; LUMPED ELEMENT REPRESENTATION; MODE MATCHING TECHNIQUE;

SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 0030129831     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/7/4/010     Document Type: Article

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