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Microwave characterization of filled polymers

Authors: Christian Brosseau; Patrick Quéffélec; Philippe Talbot;

Microwave characterization of filled polymers

Abstract

Interest in filled polymers has expanded in recent years as investigators have recognized the great flexibility allowed by these materials to suit particular properties such as electrical, mechanical, and/or coupling between these properties. This article describes the work undertaken to investigate the microwave response of two different types of samples: one with carbon black or silica particles embedded in a linear low-density polyethylene, and the other with carbon black particles or carbon fibers embedded in an epoxy resin. We report broad-band (30 MHz–14 GHz) measurements of the complex permittivity of these materials obtained by measuring the scattering parameters (S parameters) of a microstrip line loaded with a rectangular sample of the test material. The experimental results presented give access to data which can be rationalized in terms of a combination of Bruggeman’s self-consistent model with Jonscher’s phenomenological analysis. This analytical approach yields data that are in good correspondence with experimental data in terms of the concentration dependence of inclusions within the polymeric matrixes and demonstrates large practical capabilities for analyzing the electromagnetic properties of these materials at microwave frequencies because it allows one to make an explicit connection between these properties and the experimentally accessible parameters.

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