Electrical performance of carbon nanotube-polymer composites at frequencies up to 220 GHz

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  Alshehri, Ali H ^a   Jakubowska, Malgorzata ^b   Sloma, Marcin ^b   Horaczek, Michal ^b   Rudka, Diana ^b   Free, Charles ^a   David Carey, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVE COUPLINGS; CARBON NANOTUBE-POLYMER COMPOSITES; ELECTRICAL LOSS; ELECTRICAL PERFORMANCE; ELECTRICAL RESPONSE; FREQUENCY RANGES; HIGH-FREQUENCY APPLICATIONS; METALLIC CONDUCTOR; METHYL METHACRYLATES; POLYMER COMPOSITE; SCREEN-PRINTED; SIGNAL LOSS; WAVEGUIDE GEOMETRY;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES; ESTERS; LOSS PREVENTION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 80054967582     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3651278     Document Type: Article

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