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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Electromagnetics
  • Computational Physics

Background:

  • Accurate characterization of composite materials is crucial for their effective application.
  • Existing retrieval methods can be sensitive to system size and boundary conditions.
  • Understanding surface current effects is vital for precise material property determination.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose modified boundary conditions for composite materials.
  • To develop a retrieval procedure yielding size-independent bulk material properties.
  • To address the dependence of surface current conductivities on interface properties.

Main Methods:

  • Development of modified boundary conditions for composite systems.
  • Application of a modified radiative transfer (RT) retrieval procedure.
  • Simultaneous treatment of all system realizations to eliminate dependencies.

Main Results:

  • The modified RT-retrieval procedure successfully yields bulk effective impedance and refractive index.
  • These bulk properties are independent of system size and boundary realization.
  • Surface current conductivities were found to depend on interface properties but were normalized through simultaneous system treatment.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed modified boundary conditions and retrieval procedure offer a robust method for characterizing composite materials.
  • This approach provides accurate, size-independent bulk properties, enhancing material analysis.
  • The method's accuracy is comparable to using static effective parameters (k(eff)d).