This paper presents a fast and easy to use method to determine permittivity and loss tangent in the frequency range of 75 to 325 GHz. To obtain the permittivity and the loss tangent of the test material, the reflection and transmission S-parameters of a waveguide section filled with the test material are measured using a vector network analyzer and then compared with the simulated plots from a ...

The PMCT probe, saying, one kind of open-ended coaxial probe adopted widely in microwave coagulation therapy of cancer, has been used to measure the complex permittivity of freshly excised specimens of normal animal tissues. The RFM model for PMCT probe is developed to extract the anticipant permittivity of specimens under test. In addition, the effects of several factors on the measurement res...

Mechanical details as well as electrical models of FDR (frequency domain reflectometry) sensors for the measurement of the complex dielectric permittivity of porous materials are presented. The sensors are formed from two stainless steel parallel waveguides of various lengths. Using the data from VNA (vector network analyzer) with the connected FDR sensor and selected models of the applied sens...

Multiphase flow imaging is a very challenging and critical topic in industrial process tomography. In this article, simulation and experimental results of reconstructing the permittivity profile of multiphase material from data collected in electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) are presented. A multiphase narrowband level set algorithm is developed to reconstruct the interfaces between three-...

A measurement technique for the electric and magnetic properties of powdered ferrites has been developed. This technique allows one to determine relative permittivity and permeability of powdered materials. Measurements were taken in a coaxial transmission line, which guarantees the broadband frequency measurements. The calculations were based on evaluation of the scattering parameters of measu...

We present a simple method to quantitatively image the dielectric permittivity of soft materials at nanoscale using electrostatic force microscopy (EFM) by means of the double pass method. The EFM experiments are based on the measurement of the frequency shifts of the oscillating tip biased at two different voltages. A numerical treatment based on the equivalent charge method allows extracting ...

We present a microfabricated affinity sensor using permittivity measurement for continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). This device is based on a perforated electrode separated from a bottom electrode on a substrate by a solution of a synthetic glucose-sensitive polymer. Glucose permeates through the perforated electrode and binds with the polymer, leading to a change in the polymer solution permi...

The principal aim of this article is the presentation of EpsiMu, a tool for dielectric properties measurement. This general tool can be used to characterize all types of materials, but in this article we apply it to porous or granular materials. The tool consists of a coaxial cell and dedicated software that allow us to reconstruct the permittivity in almost real-time by a de-embedding process....

In this paper we introduce an image reconstruction technique for imaging permittivity distributions using electrical capacitance tomography, based on global optimization by very fast simulated annealing. Electrical capacitance measurement data are obtained between electrodes placed around the outer wall of an electrically insulating pipe. Such data are used to infer material distributions insid...