Under the glare of a thousand suns -The pioneering works of Sir J. C. Bose

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 218-224

  Bondyopadhyay, Probir K ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential conductivity; Galena detector; Millimeter wave detector; Millimeter wave wireless autocoherer; Polarizing crystal detector; Self restoring coherer; Semiconductor diode

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; RADIO TRANSMISSION; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SOLID STATE DEVICES;

GALENA DETECTOR; MILLIMETER WAVE DETECTOR; MILLIMETER WAVE WIRELESS AUTOCOHERER; POLARIZING CRYSTAL DETECTOR; SELF RESTORING COHERER;

DETECTOR CIRCUITS;

EID: 0031647930     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.658772     Document Type: Article

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