Permittivity of human skin in millimetre wave band

Electronics Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 1521-1522

  Alabaster, C M ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FORMALDEHYDE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PERMITTIVITY; SKIN; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

QUASI-OPTICAL METHOD;

MILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 0142185477     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20030967     Document Type: Article

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