Determining the electrical properties of granite for the VHF range using a parallel-plate capacitor

IEEE AFRICON Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Swart, James ^a   Pienaar, Christo ^a   Mendonidis, Peter ^a  

^a VAAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

granite; network analyzer; parallel plate capacitor; resonance

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYZERS; RESONANCE;

MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS; PARALLEL PLATE CAPACITORS; SIMPLE METHOD;

GRANITE;

EID: 82955228017     PISSN: 21530025     EISSN: 21530033     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AFRCON.2011.6071958     Document Type: Conference Paper

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