In Situ and Ex Situ Studies of Molybdenum Thin Films Deposited by rf and dc Magnetron Sputtering as a Back Contact for CIGS Solar Cells by K. Aryal, H. Khatri, R. W. Collins, S. Marsillac

“…The electronic relaxation time was then extracted as a function of bulk layer thickness for rf and dc films by fitting each dielectric function to a Drude free-electron model combined with a broad Lorentz oscillator. …”
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Fabrication and Characterization of Nickel Chloride Doped PMMA Films by Wasan A. Al-Taa’y, Saad F. Oboudi, Emad Yousif, Mohammed Abdul Nabi, Rahimi M. Yusop, Darfizzi Derawi

“…The effect of doping on the optical constants of films such as refractive index, extinction coefficient, real and imaginary parts of dielectric constant, optical conductivity, and skin depth has been reported. …”
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Impact of Ag2O on physical and electrical properties of Li2O-MgO-Bi2O3-SiO2 glass system as promising solid state electrolytes by Hany A. Abo-Mosallam, Samia E. Ibrahim

“…The s values essentially lie in the range of 0.67–0.92, which is typical of conductors in Jonscher regime. Dielectric properties (constant ε′, loss ε″ and ac conductivity σac, over a range of frequency 100–100 kHz and temperature RT (Room Temperature)–200 °C and frequency exponent s) of these glasses have been studied The results indicate a great potential of the prepared glasses as promising materials that can be used for solid state electrolytes.…”
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Temperature Dependence of Electrical Properties and Crystal Structure of 0.29Pb(In1/2Nb1/2)O3–0.44Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3–0.27PbTiO3 Single Crystals by Qian Li, Yun Liu, Andrew Studer, Zhenrong Li, Ray Withers, Zhuo Xu

“…It is also found that the polar order persists above the maximum dielectric permittivity temperature at which the crystal shows a well-defined antiferroelectric behavior. …”
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Enhancing Photocatalytic Performance through Tuning the Interfacial Process between -Assembled and Pt-Loaded Microspheres by Jun Zhang, Liping Li, Guangshe Li

“…In addition, TiO2 microspheres also showed a capacity of electrons storage and releasing as represented by a high dielectric constant, which increased the utility rate of photogenerated electrons. …”
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Influence of Magnetic Wood on Mechanical and Electromagnetic Wave-Absorbing Properties of Polymer Composites by Satish Geeri, B. Krishna Murthy, Aditya Kolakoti, M. Murugan, P. V. Elumalai, N. R. Dhineshbabu, S. Prabhakar

“…The microwave absorbing phenomenon is evaluated based on the complex permeability, complex permittivity, dielectric tangent, and magnetic tangent losses. The experimentation was done by vector network analyzer in the frequency range of 8.2–12.4 GHz by X-band and Through-reflect-line (TRL) calibration. …”
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An ultra-wideband thin metamaterial linear cross-polarization conversion by Pegah Nochian, Zahra Atlasbaf

“…The CPC consists of two concentric deformed rings on a dielectric substrate backed by a metallic surface. It demonstrates co-polarization and cross-polarization reflection coefficients below − 11 and above − 1.1 dB, respectively, over a wide frequency range of 8.75–17.75 GHz, achieving a 68% bandwidth. …”
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Theoretical Study on Solubility from Pt Electrocatalyst and Reactivity in Electrolyte Environment of Pt Complex in PEFC by Takayoshi Ishimoto, Michihisa Koyama

“…To represent the low- and high-humidity conditions in perfluorosulfonic acid (PFSA) polymer electrolyte membrane, we controlled the dielectric constant based on the experimental result. …”
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A Feasibility Study for Microwave Breast Cancer Detection Using Contrast-Agent-Loaded Bacterial Microbots by Yifan Chen, Panagiotis Kosmas, Sylvain Martel

“…Motivated by these useful properties, we suggest loading a nanoscale microwave contrast agent such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) or ferroelectric nanoparticles (FNPs) onto the MTB in order to modify the dielectric properties of tissues near the agent-loaded bacteria. …”
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Design of UWB Filter with WLAN Notch by Harish Kumar, MD. Upadhayay

“…Initially a two-transmission-pole UWB band pass filter in the frequency range 3.1–10.6 GHz is achieved by designing a parallel-coupled microstrip line with defective ground plane structure using GML 1000 substrate with specifications: dielectric constant 3.2 and thickness 0.762 mm at centre frequency 6.85 GHz. …”
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A Study of Antenna System for High Order MIMO Device by Zhaoliang Chen, Wen Geyi, Ming Zhang, Jun Wang

“…The antenna element is a folded planar inverted-F antenna with added resonating branches wound on a small dielectric cube of the dimensions 10 mm × 10 mm × 5 mm, which is the smallest volume so far reported covering the frequency bands 1880 MHz–1920 MHz and 2300 MHz–2620 MHz for GSM1900, LTE2300, 2.4-GHz WLAN, and LTE2500. …”
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Novel Dual Band Microstrip Circular Patch Antennas Loaded with ENG and MNG Metamaterials by Md. Ababil Hossain, Md. Saimoom Ferdous, Shah Mahmud Hasan Chowdhury, Md. Abdul Matin

“…Using ENG metamaterial instead of the conventional dielectric, unconventional TMδ10 (1<δ<2) mode was produced to yield a dual band performance. …”
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Properties of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Thin Films and Solar Cells Deposited by Hybrid Process by S. Marsillac, H. Khatri, K. Aryal, R.W. Collins

“…Characterization of these films by variable angle of incidence spectroscopic ellipsometry allowed for the calculation of the position of the critical points, via calculation of the second derivative of the dielectric function and fit with critical points parabolic band oscillators. …”
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First-principles investigation of Ra doping effects on structural, electronic, and optical properties of BaTiO3 perovskite for solar cell applications by Sonia Chahar, Krishna Kumar Mishra, Rajnish Sharma

“…The optical properties of these materials, including dielectric constant, susceptibility, optical conductivity, polarizability (real and imaginary), absorption coefficient, refractive index, extinction coefficient, and reflectivity, were thoroughly examined. …”
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Characterization of an Implicitly Resistively-Loaded Monopole Antenna in Lossy Liquid Media by Colleen J. Fox, Paul M. Meaney, Fridon Shubitidze, Lincoln Potwin, Keith D. Paulsen

“…Microwave tomographic imaging of the breast for cancer detection is a topic of considerable interest because of the potential to exploit the apparent high-dielectric property contrast between normal and malignant tissue. …”
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Analytical model for helical particle array assessment for EMI shielding applications by Ayoub Hamidi, Ahmad Cheldavi, Asghar Habibnejad Korayem, Mohammad Baharian

“…Abstract This paper introduces an analytical method for studying power transmission through an infinite array of helical-shaped metal particles in a lossy dielectric medium. While the assessment of composite slabs’ transmitted power has been extensively researched in the electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding field, many studies lack an adequate problem description. …”
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Methane detection approach based on THz wave absorber by Alireza Barati Haghverdi, Ilghar Rezaei, Amir Ali Mohammad Khani, Toktam Aghaee

“…Firstly, a simple single layer including graphene rings on top of the Kapton dielectric and backside coated gold is suggested. The graphene rings face free space or polluted air with a known refractive index in this situation. …”
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Compact Vitis vinifera-Inspired Ultrawideband Antenna for High-Speed Communications by Jeremiah O. Abolade, Dominic B. O. Konditi, Vasant M. Dharmadhikary

“…The proposed antenna is built on an FR4 substrate with a dielectric constant of 4.4, a loss tangent of 0.02, and a thickness of 1.5 mm. …”
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Impedance Spectroscopy and FTIR Studies of PEG - Based Polymer Electrolytes by Anji Reddy Polu, Ranveer Kumar

“…The imaginary part of dielectric constant (εi) decreases with increase in frequency in the low frequency region whereas frequency independent behavior is observed in the high frequency region.…”
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Additive contribution of multiferroic film and semiconductor substrate from nanotube array to resistive switching, topographic features by Shikhgasan Ramazanov, Gaji Gajiev, Daud Selimov, Sadrudin Gadzhimuradov, Sagim Suleymanov, Ştefan Ţălu, Robert S. Matos, Henrique D. da Fonseca Filho

“…The negative differential resistance probably arises from the oxide dielectric layer of BFO, thin regions of which participate in the tunneling process. …”
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