Abstract
This paper is presented as an example of a parametric approach that may be applied to engineering the radio and microwave properties of composite materials in the context of providing electromagnetic shielding capability. In this case, the composites are formed by a conductive filler component embedded within an insulating material. The effective electromagnetic (permittivity) properties of the composite are modeled under the quasistatic approximation using the McLachlan general effective medium model, which enables the impact of the percolation (insulator-conductor) transition to be explored. Composites within the transition region exhibit a power-law nature to their effective material properties. The power-law exponents may take a range of values above a limiting value set by the dimensionality of the filler particle network within the composite and with the assumption of a perfectly random distribution of filler particles. In practice, the values of the power-law exponents depend on the chemical interactions between the constituents, the processing conditions and the nature of the inter-particle charge transport. The paper demonstrates the implications of different values of power-law exponent in the context of the trade-off between shielding effectiveness and composite thickness.
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