Trends in radar absorbing materials technology

Sādhanā - 1995
K. J. Vinoy1, Rakesh Mohan Jha1
1Computational Electromagnetics Lab., Aerospace Electronics and Systems Division, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, India

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