Dielectric mixtures-importance and theoretical approaches

IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 49-58

  Tuncer, Enis ^a,b  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bounds on dielectric properties; Dielectric mixture; Spectral density representation

Indexed keywords

DENSITY REPRESENTATION; DIELECTRIC BEHAVIOR; DIELECTRIC MIXTURES; FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; INTRINSIC PROPERTY; NOVEL NUMERICAL METHODS; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; THEORETICAL APPROACH;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; SPECTRAL DENSITY;

MIXTURES;

EID: 84887927856     PISSN: 08837554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MEI.2013.6648753     Document Type: Conference Paper

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