Cryogenically cooled sapphire-rutile dielectric resonators for ultrahigh-frequency stable oscillators for terrestrial and space applications

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 48, Issue 7 PART 2, 2000, Pages 1265-1269

  Tobar, Michael Edmund ^a   Hartnett, John Gideon ^a   Ivanov, Eugene N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dielectric resonator; Frequency stable; Rutile; Sapphire

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC RESONATOR; FREQUENCY STABLE; LIQUID HELIUM; RUTILE; TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT OF PERMITTIVITY;

CRYOGENICS; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCIES; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; PERMITTIVITY; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; RESONATORS; SAPPHIRE;

MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0034226864     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.853470     Document Type: Article

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