• DocumentCode
    1443171
  • Title

    Determination of the dielectric constant of materials from effective refractive index measurements

  • Author

    Abbas, Zulkifly ; Pollard, Roger D. ; Kelsall, Robert W.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Leeds Univ., UK
  • Volume
    47
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    2/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    148
  • Lastpage
    152
  • Abstract
    This paper presents an extension to the rectangular dielectric waveguide technique to obtain the permittivity of samples iteratively from the effective refractive index measurements by using the solution of the wave equation. The effective refractive index is presented for several samples in the 33 GHz to 50 GHz frequency range. The method is very fast and simple and provides an accuracy of better than 1% for the determination of permittivity of materials
  • Keywords
    optical waveguides; permittivity measurement; rectangular waveguides; refractive index measurement; waveguide discontinuities; 33 to 50 GHz; dielectric constant; effective refractive index measurements; permittivity; rectangular dielectric waveguide; wave equation; waveguide discontinuities; Dielectric constant; Dielectric materials; Dielectric measurements; Frequency; Optical waveguide theory; Optical waveguides; Permittivity measurement; Rectangular waveguides; Refractive index; Waveguide discontinuities;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9456
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/19.728808
  • Filename
    728808