Permittivity Evaluation Based Algorithm for Detecting Optimal Thickness Range of Composite Materials at Microwave Frequencies
摘要
Accuracy in permittivity evaluation plays an important role in composite material characterization. But, this permittivity evaluation gets affected, if there is a variation in the thickness of the sample under test (SUT) at a given frequency band. Hence, finding the suitable thickness range of SUT for evaluating the correct permittivity is a challenging task for low-dielectric low-loss composite materials. This paper presents an algorithm based on the Robert-von Hippel (RVH) method and exhaustive search optimization for finding the suitable thickness range of SUT at a given microwave frequency band \((4-40 \, GHz)\) . The simulation calculates the optimized thickness ranges for the low-dielectric low-loss composite material samples for the C-band, X-band, Ku-band, K-band, and Ka-band. It is also observed that there is no change in the RVH permittivity of the material by varying the loss tangent in the range from 0 to 0.1.