Carbon Loaded Teflon (CLT): A Power Density meter for Biological Experiments Using Millimeter Waves

Allen, Stewart J.; James, Adam

doi:10.1080/08327823.2006.11688552

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“…The current research seeks to develop a simple computational model of a broadband TA-based detection chain to assess the feasibility of this technique in pulsed HPM force health protection applications, using a limited subset of potential beam parameters of interest as a scoping study and focusing on the 2-18 GHz frequency range, a nominal 1 ms pulse width, and a 50 mW cm −2 reference incident power density as a sensitivity threshold. Carbon-filled polytetrafluorethylene (CF-PTFE) was used as the lossy dielectric coupling medium based on previous implementations as a microwave absorber in millimeter wave RF dosimetry applications (Allen and Ross 2007). This application of CF-PTFE indicates an ability to operate across a wide swath of potential HPM DEW operating carrier frequencies and incident power densities not well addressed by commercially available EMF detectors.…”

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Modeling a Lossy Dieletric Polymer-based Thermoacoustic High Power Microwave Directed Energy Exposure Detection System

2022

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Presented are design considerations for a potential detection and measurement technique that could provide operational awareness of high power microwave (HPM) directed energy weapon exposure for force health protection applications, leveraging thermoacoustic (TA) wave generation as the field interaction mechanism. The HPM electromagnetic frequency (EMF) regime, used in applications in both the counter-materiel and non-lethal counter-personnel design space, presents real-time personnel exposure warning challenges due to the potentially wide variation in time and frequency domain characteristics of the incident beam. As with other EM-thermal interactions, the thermoacoustic wave effect provides the potential to determine EM energy and power deposition without the need to measure ambient field intensity values or overload-sensitive EMF survey equipment. Following measurement of relevant EM, thermal, and elastic material property values, a carbon-filled polytetrafluoroethylene (CF-PTFE) lossy dielectric medium subject to pulsed HPM was computationally modeled using the commercial finite element method multi-physics simulation software package COMSOL. The simulation was used to explore the impacts of various material properties on TA signal output as a function of simulated incident field power density, EM frequency, and pulse length, thereby informing the selection of system components for the further development of a full TA-based HPM detection chain.

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Modeling a Lossy Dieletric Polymer-based Thermoacoustic High Power Microwave Directed Energy Exposure Detection System

2022

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“…A limited subset of potential beam parameter combinations of incident power density and pulse length were applied within this bandwidth, with frequency-pulse length permutations both well within and well beyond the stress confinement condition. Carbon-filled polytetrafluorethylene (CF-PTFE) in a planar geometry was used as the lossy dielectric target volume based on its relatively high power absorption coefficient within the frequency range of interest and its use as a microwave absorber in millimeter wave RF dosimetry applications (Allen and Ross 2007). As significant gaps exist in the literature on the broadband properties of this material as a function of the levels of carbon fill (% weight), laboratory measurements and model-based extrapolation were conducted to determine reasonable permittivity values for use in the analysis of TA response.…”

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Characterization of a Thermoacoustic-based Pulsed High Power Microwave Detector Chain

2022

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Detection of microwave-induced thermoacoustic (TA) wave generation was evaluated as a potential technique for detection of high power microwave (HPM) directed energy exposure. Even when HPM is employed for counter-materiel effects, incidental but still potentially harmful personnel exposure is possible. Real-time detection of ongoing exposure with potentially unknown time and frequency domain characteristics is a critical first step in preventing acute health effects by alerting and then enabling the timely use of electromagnetic frequency energy shielding, such as structures and vehicles. Leveraging the TA effect as a field interaction mechanism, a lossy dielectric polymer subjected to pulsed HPM was tested using a planar sample geometry with thin film piezoelectric sensors used to capture the resulting TA output. The piezoelectric signal was analyzed in both the time and frequency domain to determine empirical relationships between incident microwave beam properties and signal components. This analysis was coupled with an empirically-based single term Cole-Cole model approximation fit for the complex permittivity. The results were used to identify appropriate signal conditioning and processing techniques needed to convert the TA response into a useful form for personnel exposure applications. These results also served as a comparison point for multi-physics finite element method computational modeling of the electromagnetic response of a simplified three-layer tissue model.

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Demonstration of System Technologies Enabling Millimeter Wave Power Beaming Using Thermomechanical Power Conversion

Baros,

Hoff,

Armijo

et al. 2024

IEEE J. Microw.

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Carbon Loaded Teflon (CLT): A Power Density meter for Biological Experiments Using Millimeter Waves

Cited by 3 publications

References 2 publications

Modeling a Lossy Dieletric Polymer-based Thermoacoustic High Power Microwave Directed Energy Exposure Detection System

Modeling a Lossy Dieletric Polymer-based Thermoacoustic High Power Microwave Directed Energy Exposure Detection System

Characterization of a Thermoacoustic-based Pulsed High Power Microwave Detector Chain

Demonstration of System Technologies Enabling Millimeter Wave Power Beaming Using Thermomechanical Power Conversion

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