Near-Field Microwave Distribution Measurement with a Point Detector Base on Thermoacoustic Effect

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3272-3276

  Ding, Wenzheng ^a   Ji, Zhong ^a   Ye, Fanghao ^a   Lou, Cunguang ^a   Xing, Da ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Antenna debugging; near field microwave measurement; point detector; thermoacoustic (TA) effect; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVES; THERMOACOUSTICS;

HIGH POWER MICROWAVES; MEASUREMENT METHODS; MICROWAVE ABSORPTION; MICROWAVE DISTRIBUTIONS; MICROWAVE FIELD DISTRIBUTIONS; MICROWAVE INTENSITY; MICROWAVE POWER; THERMOACOUSTIC EFFECTS;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84945370639     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2015.2470253     Document Type: Article

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