An Experimental Study on the Calculation of the Complex Permittivity for Building Materials from the Reflection Loss by Free Space Measurement

IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 381-387

  Kimura, Ken Ichi ^a   Hashimoto, Osamu ^b  

^a FUJITA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Building Materials; Complex Permittivity; Free Space Measurement; Reflection Loss; Water Content

Indexed keywords

EID: 51049099787     PISSN: 03854221     EISSN: 13488155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1541/ieejeiss.124.381     Document Type: Article

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