Microwave broadband free-space complex dielectric permittivity measurements on low loss solids

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 865-870

  Grignon, René ^a   Afsar, Mohammed N ^a   Wang, Yong ^a   Butt, Saquib ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOROSILICATE GLASS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYZERS; ERROR CORRECTION; FOCUSING; LENSES; MICROWAVES; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; POLYPROPYLENES; WAVE TRANSMISSION; ACETAL RESINS; ANTENNAS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIELECTRIC LOSSES; HORN ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; SOLIDS;

FREE-SPACE TECHNIQUES;

PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; PERMITTIVITY;

ANTENNA MEASUREMENT; COMPLEX DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITIES; DIELECTRIC MEASUREMENTS; GENERAL PURPOSE INTERFACE BUS; LOSS MEASUREMENT; PROPAGATION LOSS; TRANSMISSION COEFFICIENTS; VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZERS;

EID: 0037493529     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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