Development of a new millimeter-wave integrated-circuit sensor for surface and subsurface sensing

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 650-655

  Park, Joongsuk ^b,c   Nguyen, Cam ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Liquid level gauging; Microwave and millimeterwave sensor and radar; Mine and UXO detection; Surface and subsurface sensing

Indexed keywords

MILLIMETER WAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVE SENSORS; MINE DETECTION; SUBSURFACE SENSING;

DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; EXPLOSIVES; HETERODYNING; LIQUID LEVEL INDICATORS; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SENSORS;

MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES;

EID: 33846325754     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2006.874459     Document Type: Article

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