A self-sustained microwave system for dielectric-constant measurement of lossy organic liquids

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1444-1455

  Sekar, Vikram ^a   Torke, William J ^b   Palermo, Samuel ^c   Entesari, Kamran ^c  

^a Peregrine Semiconductor   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^c Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

dielectric mixture; Dielectric constant measurement; frequency synthesizer; negative resistance oscillator; split ring resonator (SRR)

Indexed keywords

DETECTION ALGORITHM; DIELECTRIC MIXTURES; FRACTION ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY SHIFT; MATERIAL LOSS; MICROWAVE SYSTEMS; ORGANIC LIQUID; OSCILLATION FREQUENCY; SAMPLE VOLUME; SPLITRING RESONATORS; TEST SAMPLES; WORKING PRINCIPLES;

DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; OSCILLISTORS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS; VOLUME FRACTION;

DIELECTRIC LIQUIDS;

EID: 84860661048     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2012.2187066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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