A new method of obtaining the Permittivity of liquids using in-waveguide technique

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 363-365

  Ogunlade, Olumide ^b   Pollard, Roger D ^a   Hunter, Ian C ^a  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complex permittivity measurement; Liquids; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CELLS; COMPLEX PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; FOURBOUNDARY ARRANGEMENT; MATERIAL HOUSING;

ASSEMBLY; MICROWAVE DEVICES; PERMITTIVITY; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; SEMICONDUCTING LIQUIDS; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33746631824     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2006.875594     Document Type: Article

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