The impact of reflections from stratified building materials on the wave propagation in future indoor terahertz communication systems

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1413-1419

  Jansen, Christian ^a   Piesiewicz, Radoslaw ^a,b   Mittleman, Daniel ^c   Kürner, Thomas ^a,b   Koch, Martin ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b Terahertz Communications Lab   (Germany)

^c Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Multilayers; Nonhomogeneous media; Raytracing; Stratified materials; Submillimeter wave communication; THz channel modeling; THz communication; Transfer matrix

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; RAY TRACING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

INDOOR TERAHERTZ COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NONHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; STRATIFIED BUILDING MATERIALS; SUBMILLIMETER WAVE COMMUNICATION; TERAHERTZ CHANNEL MODELING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 44349132021     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.922651     Document Type: Article

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