This paper has presented the characteristic impedance and signal propagation delay time for both surface and embedded microstrip lines that comprise a conducting strip line with width w, thickness t of conductivity σ, on a substrate of thickness h, relative permittivity εr, relative permeability sub, on top of an infinite grounded electrode. The strips couples to the ground plane. It is observ...

Combined ground penetrating radar and metal detector equipment are now available (e.g., MINEHOUND, ERA TechnologyVallon GmbH) for landmine detection. The performance of the radar detector is influenced by the electromagnetic characteristics of the soil. In this paper we present an experimental procedure that uses the same equipment for the detection and calibration by means of signal processing...

In this research we introduce the formalism of the extension of the discrete dipole approximation to a more general range of tensorial relative permittivity and permeability. Its performance is tested in the domain of applicability of other methods for the case of composite materials (nanoshells). Then, some early results on bianisotropic nanoparticles are presented, to show the potential of th...

Multi-strip resonator BPF is fabricated in the LTCC configuration. The center frequency is 3.5GHz, fractional bandwidth is 0.1 and 3-stage Chebyshev type is designed. The relative permittivity of the ceramic is 18.3, resulting in the size as small as 2.3 × 1.6 × 0.73mm. The in-band loss is 3.5 dB, which could be reduced in the stable mass production state. The spurious suppression of more than ...

Two kinds of band-notched ultra wide-band slot antennas are proposed. Printed on a dielectric substrate of FR4 with relative permittivity of 4.4 and fed by a 50 Ω microstrip line, the proposed antennas introduce semicircular annular strips to reject the frequency band (5.15–5.85 GHz) limited by IEEE802.11a. The parameters which affect the performance of the antennas in terms of its frequency do...

Morphology control of binary nanoparticles in an electric field was investigated by a computational model. The study revealed rich patterning dynamics and how collective actions of relative permittivity, volume fraction, and particle size can lead to a wide range of superlattice structures from functionally gradient columns to chain networks. These results suggest a significant degree of experi...

We study the strongly singular volume integral operator that describes the scattering of time-harmonic electromagnetic waves. For the case of piecewise constant material coefficients and smooth interfaces, we determine the essential spectrum. We show that it is a finite set and that the operator is Fredholm of index zero in H(curl) if and only if the relative permeability and permittivity are b...

HGmod is a computer program that builds on stochastic realizations of porosity fields to derive electrical conductivity, dielectric permittivity and hydraulic permeability models. The presence of clay, the influence of salinity as well as temperature of the fluid of imbibition are taken into account in the underlying formulations. The saturated and unsaturated zones are also considered through ...

Mixing models help describe the contribution of liquid, gas, and solid phases to the bulk dielectric permittivity of porous materials. They are particularly useful when studying the electromagnetic properties of the vadose zone using TDR or GPR techniques. The objective of this research was to evaluate the Lichtenecker Mixing Model applied to undisturbed and repacked soil data collected with a ...