Elimination of the multiple-solutions ambiguity in permittivity extraction from transmission-only measurements of lossy materials

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 337-341

  Hasar, U C ^a,b  

^a ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b State University of New York at Binghamton   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave measurement; Permittivity measurement; Scattering parameters

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE-ONLY MEASUREMENTS; COMPLEX PERMITTIVITIES; IMAGINARY PARTS; INITIAL GUESS; LOSSY MATERIALS; MEASUREMENT AUTOMATIONS; MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PARAMETER MEASUREMENTS; PERMITTIVITY EXTRACTIONS;

MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; PERMITTIVITY; PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; SCATTERING; SCATTERING PARAMETERS;

MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 60349088835     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.24048     Document Type: Article

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