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...

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 ...

Contact between a charged metal surface and an electrolyte implies a particular ion distribution near the charged surface, i.e. the electrical double layer. In this mini review, different mean-field models of relative (effective) permittivity are described within a simple lattice model, where the orientational ordering of water dipoles in the saturation regime is taken into account. The Langevi...

The effective solvent-mediated potentials for Na(+) and Cl(-) ions in aqueous solution were calculated in a wide range of temperatures from 0 to 100 °C. The potentials have been determined using the inverse Monte Carlo approach, from the ion-ion radial distribution functions computed in 50 ns molecular dynamics simulations of ions and explicit water molecules. We further separated the effective...

We present computer simulation data for the effective permittivity ~in the quasistatic limit! of a system composed of discrete inhomogeneities of permittivity e1 , embedded in a three-dimensional homogeneous matrix of permittivity e2 . The primary purpose of this paper is to study the related issue of the effect of the geometric shape of the components on the dielectric properties of the medium...

We demonstrate that use of the field effect enables tuning of the effective optical parameters of a layered hyperbolic metamaterial at optical frequencies. Field-effect gating electrically modulates the permittivity in transparent conductive oxides via changes in the carrier density. These permittivity changes lead to active modulation of the effective electromagnetic parameters along with acti...

B. Gal, K. Granat, D. Nowak, Wroclaw University of Technology, Department of Foundry Engineering, Plastics and Automation and Automation, Wrocław, Poland The presented basic research was aimed at determining a correlation between compaction degree of moulding sand and its permittivity εr at 2,45·10 9 s-1. The measurement results make a basis for mathematical description of a multilayer technolo...

In this paper, we have studied on the numerical model for the complex permittivity of carbon nanocomposites in microwave frequency band based on the percolation theory. The model was built up for complex permittivity of E-glass fabric/epoxy composite laminates containing carbon black (CB), carbon nanofiber (CNF) at the frequency band of 0.5 GHz ~ 18.0 GHz. It is composed of the numerical equati...