Accurate measurement of moisture content is a prime requirement in hydrological, geophysical and biogeochemical research as well as for material characterization and process control. Within these areas, accurate measurements of the surface area and bound water content is becoming increasingly important for providing answers to many fundamental questions ranging from characterization of cotton f...

Basic assumption and accuracy of complex permittivity measurement by perturbation technique are proposed to be verified by FDTD simulation of experimental cavity with QuickWave-3D. Determination of dielectric constant and loss factor of a piece of wet movie-film in rectangular resonator is shown to be very sensitive to film position and approved to be valid for low contents of water.

The paper reports here on the reflection frequency-domain measurements to determine the selected electromagnetic properties of materials using an Agilent 8714ET Network analyzer. The measurement process as well as results evaluation are performed by means of computer control. For this purpose, a VEE program (Agilent technology) has been developed. The discussion concerning the optimisation of m...

The method of determination of complex dielectric permIttIvIty of loss materials at microwave frequencies (X-band) using measured amplitudes of reflection and transmission coefficients and numerical calculations is developed. Different numerical methods namely graphical, bisection (halving), newton, and secant, are applied in order to determine the permittivity of cement-based materials. Simula...

The microwave sensors have been successfully used for permittivity measurement. These suffer from limited sensitivity and environmental effects. This paper presents a novel T-junction highly sensitive sensor measurement of low loss solid materials. proposed operation principle is based on downshifting the transmission zero outputs with coupling material under test (MUT). sensing section consist...

An adjustable resonance cavity was developed to measure the complex permittivity of dielectric materials. The cavity has an inner diameter of 16.400 cm and an inner height of 2.54 cm. The aluminum stationary wall holder was positioned about 10.8 cm above the top of the cavity. It was fixed into place by three 1.27-cm-diam linear shafts. By suspending from the wall holder, the movable wall moved...

759 Soil water content (θ, m3 m−3) is a basic hydrologic parameter that affects groundwater recharge, surface water fl ow, transpiration, and carbon fi xation. Electronic monitoring of θ facilitates the study of those processes by providing detailed temporal data. Most instruments currently in use measure soil dielectric permittivity, directly or indirectly, and then calculate θ with an equatio...