Noniterative permittivity extraction of lossy liquid materials from reflection asymmetric amplitude-only microwave measurements

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 419-421

  Hasar, Ugur C ^a   Westgate, Charles R ^a   Ertugrul, Mehmet ^b  

^a ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplitude; materials testing; microwave measurements; Permittivity

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; COMPLEX PERMITTIVITY; HIGH-LOSS MATERIAL; LIQUID MATERIALS; LOSSY MATERIALS; MICROWAVE COMPONENTS; MICROWAVE INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE METHODS; NON-ITERATIVE; PERMITTIVITY EXTRACTION; SAMPLE HOLDERS; TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS;

MATERIALS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; PERMITTIVITY; REFLECTION; SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

MATERIALS TESTING;

EID: 67650417861     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2009.2020045     Document Type: Article

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