Noise temperature of a lossy flat-plate reflector for the elliptically polarized wave-case

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1588-1591

  Otoshi, T Y ^a   Yeh, C ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ELLIPTICAL POLARIZATION; NOISE TEMPERATURE;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0034271553     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.869014     Document Type: Article

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