Flow-through coaxial sample holder design for dielectric properties measurements from 1 to 350 MHz

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 354-361

  Lawrence, Kurt C ^a,b   Nelson, Stuart O ^a,b   Bartley Jr , Philip G ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b RUSSELL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coaxial line; Dielectric properties; Particulate material; Permittivity measurement; Signal flow graph

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; CALIBRATION; DIELECTRIC LOSSES; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE MEASUREMENT;

SIGNAL-FLOW GRAPHS;

PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0032035647     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.744174     Document Type: Article

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