The role of losses in the definition of the overmoded condition for reverberation chambers and their statistics

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 296-307

  Cozza, Andrea ^a  

^a SUPELEC   (France)

Author keywords

Cavities; error analysis; losses; statistics

Indexed keywords

CAVITIES; CAVITY QUALITY FACTOR; EIGEN MODES; ELECTRIC ENERGIES; ENERGY DENSITY; FIELD STATISTICS; MODAL DENSITY; OVERMODED; QUALITY FACTORS; RATE OF CONVERGENCE; REVERBERATION CHAMBERS; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY;

ANECHOIC CHAMBERS; ANTENNA RADIATION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ERROR ANALYSIS; MODAL ANALYSIS; REVERBERATION;

STATISTICS;

EID: 79957849632     PISSN: 00189375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEMC.2010.2081993     Document Type: Article

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