Determination of Complex Conductivity of Thin Strips with a Transmission Method

Induced modes due to discontinuities inside the waveguide are dependent on the shape and material properties of the discontinuity. Reflection and transmission coefficients provide useful information about material properties of discontinuities inside the waveguide. A novel non-resonant procedure to measure the complex conductivity of narrow strips is proposed in this paper. The sample is placed inside a rectangular waveguide which is excited by its fundamental mode. Reflection and transmission coefficients are calculated by the assistance of the Green’s functions and enforcing the boundary conditions. We show that resistivity only impacts one of the terms in the reflection coefficient. The competency of the method is demonstrated with a comparison of theoretic results and full wave modelling of method of moments and finite element methods.

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