A comparative analysis between customized and commercial systems for complex permittivity measurements on liquid samples at microwave frequencies

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1034-1046

  Piuzzi, Emanuele ^a   Merla, Caterina ^b   Cannazza, Giuseppe ^c   Zambotti, Alessandro ^b   Apollonio, Francesca ^a   Cataldo, Andrea ^c   D'Atanasio, Paolo ^b   De Benedetto, Egidio ^c   Liberti, Micaela ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Open ended coaxial probe; permittivity measurement; reflectometry; short circuited coaxial probe; uncertainty evaluation

Indexed keywords

COAXIAL PROBE; COMPLEX PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; OPEN-ENDED COAXIAL PROBE; REFLECTOMETRY; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; UNCERTAINTY EVALUATION; VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZERS;

MEASUREMENTS; PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; PROBES; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84876041573     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2012.2236791     Document Type: Article

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