The ideal relative permittivity of liquid mixtures is demonstrated to be a volume-fraction-weighted average of the pure-component relative permittivities. This generalised-thermodynamics result is used to define the molar electric dipole, permittivity, dielectric polarization and electric susceptibility of thermodynamically ideal liquid mixtures and the corresponding excess properties. A hyperb...

Several silicate materials were plasma sprayed and characterized by the authors in recent years from the point of view of their chemical and phase compositions, microstructure and mechanical as well as thermal properties. Present work is concerned with selected dielectric properties of these deposits. Synthetic mullite and steatite as well as natural olivine-forsterite were plasma sprayed using...

The relative permittivity (or static dielectric constant) of water and steam has been experimentally calculated at a relatively wide range of temperatures and pressures. A single function for predicting the relative permittivity of water and steam in three distinct thermodynamic regions is evolved using genetic programming. A data set comprised of all of the most accurate relative permittivity ...

The dry snow zone is the largest component of the Greenland ice sheet and is identified as the region that experiences no annual melt. Therefore, radar backscatter (σ) is expected to be relatively constant over time within the dry snow. However, annual variation was discovered in QuikSCAT data. This paper tests the hypothesis that annual variation in backscatter is caused by changes in permitti...

We propose a method to control electromagnetic flux in an almost arbitrary way in wavelength and subwavelength scales. The capability of subwavelength flux control is enabled by the evanescent waves induced in a class of inhomogeneous anisotropic media with a near-zero permittivity component. By designing the spatial profile of the other permittivity component in such inhomogeneous media, the f...

The relative complex dielectric permittivity, e*5e82ie9, of ice has been measured in the frequency range 5–39 GHz and in the temperature range 190–265 K. The cavity resonator method at 5 and 10 GHz and the open resonator method at 33 and 39 GHz were used to determine the low dielectric loss of ice. The real part of permittivity e8 was independent of the frequency. The temperature dependence of ...

Dielectric-based methods were used to determine nondestructively and simultaneously bulk density and moisture content in shelled peanuts from measurement of their relative complex permittivity at microwave frequencies (7–12 GHz) and 24 C. The first method is based on direct relationships between the two components of the relative complex permittivity (dielectric constant and dielectric loss fac...

The output of a piezoelectric nanogenerator based on ZnO nanowire is largely affected by the shape of nanowire. In order to obtain mechanically stable nanogenerator with high performance, the investigation of mechanical and electrical characteristics related to the nanowires and materials used in nanogenerators are of great interest and significance. This paper presents the various behavior of ...