Multimode solution for the reflection properties of an open-ended rectangular waveguide radiating into a dielectric half-space: the forward and inverse problems

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1131-1140

  Bois, Karl J ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PERMITTIVITY; REFLECTION;

DIELECTRIC HALF SPACE; OPEN-ENDED RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDE;

RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0033345517     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.816127     Document Type: Article

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