Waveguide characterization of chiral material: Theory

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 290-295

  Reinert, Jens ^a,c   Busse, Gerald ^a   Jacob, Arne F ^b  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c VOLKSWAGEN AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chiral material; Constitutive parameters; Measurement techniques; Waveguide measurements

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; WAVEGUIDES;

CHIRAL MATERIALS;

MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0033101170     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.750227     Document Type: Article

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