Finite Conductivity

Finite conductivity data consists of the material parameters and associated data such as skin effect penetration depth, conductor impedance as well as the power losses per label.

The block with the set of characteristics for the single labels is displayed first as follows:

                           DATA FOR LABELS

 Label Cuboid1.Face3: 
          Metallic conductor (skin effect)
          Surface thickness:  5.00000E-03 m
          Sigma =   1.000E+02 S/m   Mue_r =   1.000E+00   tan(delta_mue) =   0.000E+00
          Penetration depth of the skin effect:  5.81365E-03 m
          Conductor impedance due to the skin effect: (  2.098E+00 +j   9.799E-01) Ohm

After the calculation of the currents the losses that result from finite conductivity are displayed as follows:

                              POWER LOSS METAL (in Watt)

 Results for labels     |                 in the segments                  | in the
   Label                | skineffect  conc.load   distr.load   coating     | triangles
          Cuboid1.Face3 | 0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00   0.0000E+00  | 8.9357E-06
          Cuboid1.Face4 | 0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00   0.0000E+00  | 1.2433E-06
          Cuboid1.Face1 | 0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00   0.0000E+00  | 1.4940E-06
          Cuboid1.Face6 | 0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00   0.0000E+00  | 4.0082E-07
          Cuboid1.Face2 | 0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00   0.0000E+00  | 1.2433E-06
          Cuboid1.Face5 | 0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00   0.0000E+00  | 1.4940E-06
   Sum:                 | 0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00   0.0000E+00  | 1.4811E-05

          Total loss in segments:                     0.0000E+00 W
          Total loss in triangles:                    1.4811E-05 W

          Sum of losses in metallic elements:         1.4811E-05 W


                              SUMMARY OF LOSSES

          Metallic elements:                          1.4811E-05 W
          Dielectric:                                 0.0000E+00 W
          Mismatch at feed:                           0.0000E+00 W
          Non-radiating networks:                     0.0000E+00 W
          Cables:                                     0.0000E+00 W
          Backward power at passive waveguide ports:  0.0000E+00 W
          Backward power at passive modal ports:      0.0000E+00 W
                                                     -------------
                Sum of all losses:                    1.4811E-05 W

          Efficiency of the antenna:                     99.7162 %
          (based on a total active power:             5.2196E-03 W)

For the power losses, in the first column the label is displayed while the lowest row displays the sum of the losses over all labels.