3NTUU "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Prospect Peremogy 3 7, 03056 Kyiv, Ukraine Ferroelectric and relaxor materials are characterized by the very high dielectric permittivity and losses in the microwave (MW) range, especially near the phase transition or diffuse permittivity maximum in the case of relaxors [1][2][3]. It makes MW measurements (300 MHz -300 GHz) of the ferroelectrics and relaxors extremely difficult. Impedance measurements using coaxial technique cover the lower part of MW ranige (1 MHz -3 GHz), while THz time domain spectroscopy (or other quasi-optic methods) covers the upper part (100 GIIz -3 THz). In the middle part of MW range, impedance measurements of the transmission line section containing the dielectric sample (usually the rectangular waveguide section) and resonance methods using resonance systems of different kind (cavity resonator, dielectric resonator, waveguide resonator, microstrip line resonator, etc.) with an inserted sample can be used. All these methods should be modified to account for the high permittivity and losses of the measured ferroelectric sample.The high-loss sample could not create the resonance element itself, but should be a part of the resonance system. The main problem in this approach is to reduce the influence of the high-loss part and avoid the enormous dropping down of the system quality factor Q or even suppressing of the resonance. The problem is additionally enhanced by the very high dielectric permittivity of ferroelectrics. Recently, two methods based on the composite dielectric resonator (DR) were developed which allow the measurements of high-loss, highpermittivity bulk ferroelectric materials: split-post DR [4] and composite DR with TEoI1 mode [4,5]. Influence of the ferroelectric part on the resonance was reduced 1) by using of small volume samples (thin plates, h < 0.3 mm or rods, D < 1 mm) and 2) by using of the resonance modes with electric field strength lines which are parallel in the basic and ferroelectric parts. In the last case, electric field strength lines do not cross the interface between basic and ferroelectric parts. This allows to avoid the dramatic influence of the interface inhomogeneity, possible air gaps between the basic and ferroelectric parts, etc. In the case of TEOIn composite DR, additional reducing of the ferroelectric part influence was achieved by inserting of the ferroelectric rod in the minimum of electric field in the DR center.The method based on composite cylindrical TEonB mode dielectric resonator (Fig. 1) was developed and set up for the complex permittivity measurements of bulk rod-shaped samples at frequency of -8.8 GHz [5]. salliple ,17 Jeflonl sleeve mnet.-l cav-itv-^+, , dielecti-ic resonflt4rti 1 l 13 14 Fig. 1. Schematic diagram of the TEOnI composite dielectric resonator [5]Rigorous equations have been derived that allowed to find relationship between measured resonance frequency and Q-factor and the complex dielectric permittivity [5]. It has been shown that ferroelectric samples can be measured employing ei...