Effects of Curved Wavefronts on Conductor-Backed Reflection-Only Free-Space Material Characterization Techniques.

A true plane wave is often not physically realizable in a laboratory environment. Therefore, wavefront curvature introduces a form of systematic error into Free-space material characterization methods. Free-space material characterization is important to the determination of the electric permittivit...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Publicado en:International Scholarly Research Notices pp. 1 - 10
Autores principales: Fenner, Raenita A., Rothwell, Edward J.
Formato: equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell 2015
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
Descripción
Sumario:A true plane wave is often not physically realizable in a laboratory environment. Therefore, wavefront curvature introduces a form of systematic error into Free-space material characterization methods. Free-space material characterization is important to the determination of the electric permittivity and magnetic permeability of conductor-backed and in situ materials. This paper performs an error analysis of the impact on wavefront curvature on a Free-space method called the two-thickness method. This paper compares the extracted electric and magnetic permeability computed with a plane wave versus a line source for a low-loss dielectric andmagnetic radar absorbingmaterial. These steps are conducted for TE andTMplane waves and electric andmagnetic line sources.