Sub and superluminal propagation through stratified media

IEE Proceedings: Circuits, Devices and Systems

Volumn 152, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 527-531

  Manga Rao, V S C ^a   Dutta Gupta, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; RESONANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVEGUIDES;

PULSE PROPAGATION; SPATIAL SYMMETRY; STRATIFIED MEDIA; TRANSMITTED PULSES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 27544476545     PISSN: 13502409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-cds:20045044     Document Type: Conference Paper

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