Contactless Detection of State Parameter Fluctuations of Gaseous Media Based on an mm-Wave FMCW Radar

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 865-872

  Baer, Christoph ^a   Jaeschke, Timo ^a   Pohl, Nils ^b   Musch, Thomas ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR HIGH FREQUENCY PHYSICS AND RADAR TECHNIQUES FHR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar; gas permittivity; millimeter wave (mm wave); mixing equation

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE RADAR; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GASES; MIXING; PERMITTIVITY; RADAR; RADAR SYSTEMS; SLIP FORMING;

CONTACTLESS DETECTION; DIELECTRIC MIXING; FREQUENCY MODULATED CONTINUOUS WAVE RADARS; MILLIMETER WAVE RADAR; MILLIMETER-WAVE (MM-WAVE); PRESSURE-RESISTANT; TEMPERATURE INFLUENCE; TEMPERATURE PRESSURE DEPENDENCE;

MILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 84924874244     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2014.2374696     Document Type: Article

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