A simple procedure to simultaneously evaluate the thickness of and resistive losses in transmission lines from uncalibrated scattering parameter measurements

Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 8-9, 2009, Pages 999-1010

  Hasar, U C ^a,b   Simsek, O ^a   Gulnahar, M ^a  

^a ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CONSTANTS; CALIBRATION STANDARD; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; ERROR MATRICES; INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENT; INHOMOGENEITIES; MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION; RESEARCH PAPERS; RESISTIVE LOSS; SCATTERING PARAMETER MEASUREMENT; SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATIONS; TRANSMISSION LINE;

CALIBRATION; RESEARCH;

MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 69249148708     PISSN: 09205071     EISSN: 15693937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156939309789023646     Document Type: Article

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