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Abstract

A promising microwave method has been proposed to accurately determine the complex permittivity of thin materials. The method uses amplitude-only scattering parameter measurements at one frequency for this purpose. It resolves the problems arising from any offset of the sample inside its cell in complex reflection scattering parameter measurements and from any uncertainty in sample thickness in transmission scattering parameter measurements. The method determines unique permittivity since, for thin samples, multi-valued trigonometric terms can be linearized. It uses higher order approximations to extract highly accurate permittivity values. It works very well in limited frequency-band applications or for dispersive materials since it is based upon point-bypoint or (frequency-by-frequency) measurements. For validation of the method, we measured the complex permittivity of two thin polytetrafluoro-ethylene (PTFE) samples.

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