Waveguide effects on quasispherical microwave cavity resonators

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Underwood, R J ^a   Mehl, J B ^b   Pitre, L ^c   Edwards, G ^a   Sutton, G ^a   De Podesta, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b LNE INM/Cnam ^*  (United States)

^c University of Paris Cité   (France)

Author keywords

Boltzmann constant; Microwave cavity perturbation; Primary thermometry; Quasispherical resonator

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; WAVEGUIDES;

ACOUSTIC RESONANCE; BOLTZMANN CONSTANTS; CAVITY PERTURBATION; CYLINDRICAL CAVITIES; FINITE ELEMENT SOFTWARE; MICROWAVE CAVITY PERTURBATIONS; MICROWAVE CAVITY RESONATORS; PRIMARY THERMOMETRY;

MICROWAVE RESONATORS;

EID: 77953789624     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/21/7/075103     Document Type: Article

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