Propagation of electromagnetic (EM) waves in radio frequency (RF) and microwave systems is described mathematically by Maxwell’s equations with corresponding boundary conditions. Dielectric properties of lossless and lossy materials influence EM field distribution. For a better understanding of the physical processes associated with various RF and microwave devices, it is necessary to know the ...

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are crystalline microporous materials with tunable chemical and physical properties. By combining various metal clusters with different interconnecting organic linkers, the pore structure, crystallinity, as well as the surface properties can be modified. In the present work, modification of the organic linker molecules is utilized to synthesize CAU-10 type MOFs w...

grading of agricultural products has always been a subject of research by scientists. one of the criteria to be chosen for grading of fruits is the fruit's level of ripeness. different methods have been employed to assess the status of fruit ripeness some of which are destructive and others are not so. in this research, a noninvasive capacitive method was used to estimate the ripeness leve...

The Casimir force between parallel plates of arbitrary kind is shown to be simply related to the plates transmission and reflection coefficient. A trivial application of this general relation leads to known Lifshitz force between dielectrics as well as its generalizations. The simple two ideally conducting parallel plates Casimir force F = − π 240 h̄c a4 [1] recently been measured experimentally...

some issues; leakage, tunneling currents, boron diffusion are threatening sio2 to be used as a good gate dielectric for the future of the cmos (complementary metal- oxide- semiconductor) transistors. for finding an alternative and novel gate dielectric, the nio (nickel oxide) and pva (polyvinyl alcohol) nano powders were synthesized with the sol-gel method and their nano structural properties w...

Solid solutions of (1-x)BiFeO₃-xBaTiO₃ (BF-BT, 0.05 ≤ x ≤ 0.98) were prepared and characterized. It was found that the dielectric constant εm, remnant polarization Pr and piezoelectric coefficient d33 reach their maximum values near the rhombohedral-pseudocubic phase boundary. In particular, the 0.7BF-0.3BT composition shows large polarization (Pr > 20 μC/cm²) and a temperature-stable piezoelec...