High resolution scanning microwave microscopy for applications in liquid environment

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 595-597

  Farina, M ^a   Di Donato, A ^a   Mencarelli, D ^a   Venanzoni, G ^a   Morini, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Liquid environment; scanning microwave microscopy (SMM); vector network analyzer

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS ENVIRONMENT; FAR-FIELD; HIGH RESOLUTION SCANNING; HIGHLY ORIENTED PYROLITIC GRAPHITES; LIQUID ENVIRONMENT; MICROWAVE MICROSCOPY; NANOMETRIC RESOLUTION; NEAR-FIELD; PROBE-SAMPLE INTERACTIONS; SCANNING MICROWAVE MICROSCOPES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPES; SPATIAL POINTS; TIME DOMAIN; ULTRA-BROADBAND; VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZERS;

MICROWAVES;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84869430115     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2012.2225607     Document Type: Article

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