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Investigation of organic corn husk-based flat microwave absorber

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2020

Soumya Sundar Pattanayak Open the ORCID record for Soumya Sundar Pattanayak [Opens in a new window] ,
Shahedul Haque Laskar  and
Swagatadeb Sahoo
Soumya Sundar Pattanayak*
Affiliation:
National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam788010, India
Shahedul Haque Laskar
Affiliation:
National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam788010, India
Swagatadeb Sahoo
Affiliation:
National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, Jharkhand831014, India
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Author for correspondence: Soumya Sundar Pattanayak, E-mail: soumyapattanayakph.d@gmail.com
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Abstract

Design and development of cheap and eco-friendly microwave absorber are one of the challenging and interesting topics for the scientific community nowadays. This paper proposes the design and fabrication of corn husk-based low cost, light-weight, and flexible microwave absorber treated as a promising eco-friendly microwave absorber. In this work, an extensive study on microwave absorption efficiency of corn husk at different thicknesses is performed in the frequency range of 1–20 GHz. The absorber at 5.21 mm thickness possesses a return loss (RL) of −32.72247 dB at 2.255 GHz. The measured RL values agree well with simulated ones, indicating the utility of proposed absorber for various practical microwave absorption applications.

Keywords

Microwave absorbing materialmicrowave masurementreflection loss
Type
Microwave Measurements
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International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies , Volume 13 , Issue 8 , October 2021 , pp. 779 - 788
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press in association with the European Microwave Association

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