An estimate of the error caused by the plane-wave approximation in free-space dielectric measurement systems

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 878-887

  Rickard Petersson, L E ^a,b   Smith, Glenn S ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximation methods; Dielectric measurements; Electromagnetic measurements; Error analysis

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MEASUREMENT; ELECTRICAL THICKNESS; GAUSSIAN FUNCTION; INCIDENT ELECTROMAGNETIC BEAMS; PLANE WAVE APPROXIMATION; PLANE WAVE SPECTRUM;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY;

EID: 0036613046     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2002.1017671     Document Type: Article

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