Requirements for an effective reverberation chamber: Unloaded or loaded

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 187-194

  Holloway, Christopher L ^a   Hill, David A ^a   Ladbury, John M ^a   Koepke, Galen ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chamber loading; Quality factor; Rayleigh distribution; Reverberation chamber; Rice distribution; Stirred energy; Unstirred energy

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ANECHOIC CHAMBERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

CHAMBER LOADING; QUALITY FACTOR; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTION; REVERBERATION CHAMBER; STIRRED ENERGY; UNSTIRRED ENERGY;

REVERBERATION;

EID: 33645806749     PISSN: 00189375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEMC.2006.870709     Document Type: Article

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