Diffuse scattering from rough surfaces in THz communication channels

IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 462-472

  Jansen, Christian ^a,c   Priebe, Sebastian ^b,c   Moller, Christoph ^a   Jacob, Martin ^b,c   Dierke, Hanno ^b   Koch, Martin ^a,c   Kurner, Thomas ^b,c  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c Terahertz Communications Lab   (Germany)

Author keywords

Channel modeling; diffuse scattering; propagation modeling; ray tracing; scattering measurements; sub millimeter wave communications

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MODELING; DIFFUSE SCATTERING; PROPAGATION MODELING; SCATTERING MEASUREMENTS; SUBMILLIMETERS;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INNOVATION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

SCATTERING;

EID: 80455155156     PISSN: 2156342X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2011.2153610     Document Type: Article

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