scholarly journals Fast, Nondestructive, and Broadband Dielectric Characterization for Polymer Sheets

Polymers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 1891
Author(s):  
Hsin-Yu Yao ◽  
Dan-Ru Hsiao ◽  
Tsun-Hsu Chang

We propose a compact nearfield scheme for fast and broadband dielectric characterization in the microwave region. An open-type circular probe operated in the high-purity TE01 mode was developed, showing a strongly confined fringing field at the open end. This fringing field directly probed the freestanding sheet sample, and the overall reflection was measured. Without sample-loading processes, both of the system assembling time and the risk of sample damage can be significantly reduced. In addition, the nearfield measurement substantially simplifies the calibration and the retrieval theory, facilitating the development of easy-to-integrate and easy-to-calibrate dielectric characterization technique. The dielectric properties of more than ten polymers were characterized from 30 GHz to 40 GHz. We believe that this work fulfills the requirement of the fast diagnostic in the industrial manufactures and also provides valuable high-frequency dielectric information for the designs of 5G devices.

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 4017
Author(s):  
Dorota Szwagierczak ◽  
Beata Synkiewicz-Musialska ◽  
Jan Kulawik ◽  
Norbert Pałka

New ceramic materials based on two copper borates, CuB2O4 and Cu3B2O6, were prepared via solid state synthesis and sintering, and characterized as promising candidates for low dielectric permittivity substrates for very high frequency circuits. The sintering behavior, composition, microstructure, and dielectric properties of the ceramics were investigated using a heating microscope, X-ray diffractometry, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive spectroscopy, and terahertz time domain spectroscopy. The studies revealed a low dielectric permittivity of 5.1–6.7 and low dielectric loss in the frequency range 0.14–0.7 THz. The copper borate-based materials, owing to a low sintering temperature of 900–960 °C, are suitable for LTCC (low temperature cofired ceramics) applications.


Rare Metals ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ke-Lan Yan ◽  
Run-Hua Fan ◽  
Min Chen ◽  
Kai Sun ◽  
Xu-Ai Wang ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 97-107
Author(s):  
M. S. Zayats ◽  

A low-temperature (substrate heating temperature up to 400 °C) ion-plasma technology for the formation of nanostructured AlN and BN films by the method of high-frequency reactive magnetron sputtering of the corresponding targets has been developed (the modernized installation "Cathode-1M"), which has in its technological cycle the means of physical and chemical modification, which allow to purposefully control the phase composition, surface morphology, size and texture of nanocrystalline films. The possibility of using the method of high-frequency magnetron sputtering for deposition of transparent hexagonal BN films in the nanoscale state on quartz and silicon substrates is shown. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has shown that AlN films can have an amorphous or polycrystalline surface with grain sizes of approximately 20-100 nm, with the height of the nanoparticles varying from 3 to 10 nm and the degree of surface roughness from 1 to 10 nm. It was found that the dielectric penetration of polycrystalline AlN films decreases from 10 to 3.5 at increased frequencies from 25 Hz to 1 MHz, and the peak tangent of the dielectric loss angle reaches 0.2 at 10 kHz. Such features indicate the existence of spontaneous polarization of dipoles in the obtained AlN films. Interest in dielectric properties in AlN / Si structures it is also due to the fact that there are point defects, such as nitrogen vacancies and silicon atoms, which diffuse from the silicon substrate during synthesis and play an important role in the dielectric properties of AlN during the formation of dipoles. The technology makes it possible, in a single technological cycle, to produce multilayer structures modified for specific functional tasks with specified characteristics necessary for the manufacture of modern electronics, optoelectronics and sensorics devices. It should also be noted that the technology of magnetron sputtering (installation "Cathode-1M") is highly productive, energetically efficient and environmentally friendly in comparison with other known technologies for creating semiconductor structures and allows them to be obtained with minimal changes in the technological cycle.


2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (21) ◽  
pp. 18477-18486
Author(s):  
Gomasu Sreenu ◽  
Mahfooz Alam ◽  
Didier Fasquelle ◽  
Dibakar Das

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (147) ◽  
pp. 20180416 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Honrado ◽  
L. Ciuffreda ◽  
D. Spencer ◽  
L. Ranford-Cartwright ◽  
H. Morgan

Although malaria is the world's most life-threatening parasitic disease, there is no clear understanding of how certain biophysical properties of infected cells change during the malaria infection cycle. In this article, we use microfluidic impedance cytometry to measure the dielectric properties of Plasmodium falciparum -infected red blood cells ( i- RBCs) at specific time points during the infection cycle. Individual parasites were identified within i- RBCs using green fluorescent protein (GFP) emission. The dielectric properties of cell sub-populations were determined using the multi-shell model. Analysis showed that the membrane capacitance and cytoplasmic conductivity of i- RBCs increased along the infection time course, due to membrane alterations caused by parasite infection. The volume ratio occupied by the parasite was estimated to vary from less than 10% at earlier stages, to approximately 90% at later stages. This knowledge could be used to develop new label-free cell sorting techniques for sample pre-enrichment, improving diagnosis.


1968 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert T. Smith ◽  
Gary D. Achenbach ◽  
Robert Gerson ◽  
W. J. James

1995 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 335-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Williamson Iii ◽  
B. K. Gilbert ◽  
H. D. Chen ◽  
K. R. Udayakumar ◽  
L. E. Cross ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (21) ◽  
pp. 2913-2925 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Zeng ◽  
Jiangbing Chen ◽  
Qingyu Xu ◽  
Yiwan Huang ◽  
Zijian Feng ◽  
...  

The effects of the reaction solvent on the preparation, polymerization kinetics, and high-frequency dielectric properties of aliphatic main-chain benzoxazine copolymers were investigated.


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