Complex permittivity model

Figure 2.1.3. Complex plane plot of the frequency dependence of the complex permittivity modeled by the circuit of Figure 2.1.2.

A brief list of basic assumptions used in the ACF method precedes the detailed analysis of the results of calculations. The derivation of the formula for the spectral function is given at the end of the section. The calculations demonstrate a substantial progress as compared with the hat-flat model but also reveal two drawbacks related to disagreement with experiment of (i) the form of the FIR absorption spectrum and (ii) the complex-permittivity spectrum in the submillimeter wavelength region. We try to overcome these drawbacks in the next two sections, to which Fig. 2c refers. 

However, the so-corrected hat-curved model still does not give a perfect agreement with the experiment, since it does not allow us to eliminate the second drawback (ii), namely, disagreement with experiment of the calculated complex permittivity in the submillimeter wavelength region. 

Employing the additivity approximation, we find dielectric response of a reorienting single dipole (of a water molecule) in an intermolecular potential well. The corresponding complex permittivity jip is found in terms of the hybrid model described in Section IV. The ionic complex permittivity A on is calculated for the above-mentioned types of one-dimensional and spatial motions of the charged particles. The effect of ions is found for low concentrated NaCl and KC1 aqueous solutions in terms of the resulting complex permittivity e p + Ae on. The calculations are made for long (Tjon x) and rather short (xion = x) ionic lifetimes. 

We have introduced the effective complex susceptibility x ( ) = X,( )+ X ) stipulated by reorienting dipoles. This scalar quantity plays a fundamental role in subsequent description, since it connects the properties and parameters of our molecular models with the frequency dependences of the complex permittivity s (v) and the absorption coefficient ot (v) calculated for these models. 

In this section we have to calculate the complex permittivity s (v) and the absorption coefficient a(v) of ordinary (H2O) water over a wide range of frequencies. It is rather difficult to apply rigorous formulas because the fluctuations of the calculated characteristics occur at a small reduced collision frequency y typical for water (in this work we employ for calculations the standard MathCAD program). Such fluctuations are seen in Fig. 13b (solid curve). Therefore the calculations will be undertaken for two simplified variants of the hat model. Namely, we shall employ the planar libration-regular precession (PL-RP) approximation and the hybrid model.26... 

We employ the following equations Eq. (142) for the complex susceptibility X, Eq. (141) for the complex permittivity , and Eq. (136) for the absorption coefficient a. In (142) we substitute the spectral functions (132) for the PL-RP approximation and (133) for the hybrid model, respectively. In Table IIIB and IIIC the following fitted parameters and estimated quantities are listed the proportion r of rotators, Eqs. (112) and (127) the mean number m of reflections of a dipole from the walls of the rectangular well during its lifetime x, Eqs. (118)... 

There appears some disagreement of the calculated complex permittivity e (v) with the experimental data [17, 42] recorded in the submillimeter wavelength range—that is, from 10 to 100 cm-1. It is evident from Fig. 15 and more clearly from Fig. 16 that a theoretical loss is less in this spectral interval than the experimental one. The reason of such a discrepancy can be explained as follows. Some additional mechanism of dielectric loss possibly exists in water. Such a mechanism will be studied in Sections VII, IX, and X, where we shall propose composite molecular models of water. 

In Table V the fitted free and estimated statistical parameters are presented. For calculation of the spectral function we use rigorous formulas (130) and Eqs. (132) for the hybrid model. For calculation of the susceptibility %, complex permittivity , and absorption coefficient a we use the same formulas as those employed in Section IV.G.2 for water.29... 

In our early work33 [50] the constant field model was applied to liquid water, where the harmonic law of particles motion, corresponding to a parabolic potential, was actually employed in the final calculations of the complex permittivity. In this work, qualitative description of only the libration band was obtained, while neither the R-band nor the low-frequency (Debye) relaxation band was described. Moreover, the fitted mean lifetime x of the dipoles, moving in the potential well, is unreasonably short ( ().02 ps)—that is, about an order of magnitude less than in more accurate calculations, which will be made here. 

As a second example, we consider liquid fluoromethane CH3F, which is a typical strongly absorbing nonassociated liquid. For our study we choose the temperature T 133 K near the triple point, which is equal to 131 K. The relevant experimental data [43] were summarized in Table IV. As we see in Table VIII, which presents the fitted parameters of the model, the angle p is rather small. At this temperature the density p of the liquid, the maximum dielectric loss and the Debye relaxation time rD are substantially larger than they would be, for example, near the critical temperature (at 293 K). At such small (5 the theory given here for the hat-curved model holds. For calculation of the complex permittivity s (v) and absorption a(v), we use the same formulas as for water. 

We shall combine the (A) and (B) mechanisms within a composite HC-HO model capable of describing the complex permittivity e (v) and absorption coefficient a(v) of liquid H20 and D20. The theory will be given in a simple analytical form. We shall see that such a modeling could give an agreement with... 

We employ the linear response theory based on a phenomenological molecular model of water. In the proposed composite HC-HO model the complex permittivity is represented as the sum... 

Figure 35. Frequency dependence in the submillimeter wavelength region of the real (a, b) and imaginary (c, d) parts of the complex permittivity. Solid lines Calculation for the composite HC-HO model. Dashed lines Experimental data [51]. Dashed-and-dotted lines show the contributions to the calculated quantities due to stretching vibrations of an effective non-rigid dipole. The vertical lines are pertinent to the estimated frequency v b of the second stochastic process. Parts (a) and (c) refer to ordinary water, and parts (b) and (d) refer to heavy water. Temperature 22.2°C.

The hat-curved-harmonic oscillator model, unlike other descriptions of the complex permittivity available now for us [17, 55, 56, 64], gives some insight into the mechanisms governing the experimental spectra. Namely, the estimated relaxation time of a nonrigid dipole (xovib 0.2 ps) is close to that determined in the course of very accurate experimental investigations and of their statistical treatment [17, 54-56]. The reduced parameters presented in Tables XIVA and XIVB and the form of the hat-curved potential well (determined by the parameters u, (3, f) do not show marked dependence on the temperature, while the spectra themselves vary with T in greater extent. We shall continue discussion of these results in Section X.A. 

The Attenuation Function. The complex permittivity k (w) and the attenuation function a(ui) are related by basic electromagnetic theory, and independently of any molecular model, as follows ... 

Eq. (4), frequency-dependent, such that the limit for a(w) in Eq. (8) becomes physically acceptable. Under conditions appropriate to the correct limit, the normalized real and imaginary parts of the complex permittivity and the normalized dielectric conductivity take on the form depicted in Fig. (1). Here, is the relaxation time in the limit of zero frequency (diabatic limit). Irrespective of the details of the model employed, both a(w) and cs(u>) must tend toward zero as 11 + , in contrast to Eq. (8), for any relaxation process. In the case of a resonant process, not expected below the extreme far-infrared region, a(u>) is given by an expression consistent with a resonant dispersion for k (w) in Eq. (6), not the relaxation dispersion for K (m) implicit in Eq. 

In particular, the analysis of the contribution to k (oj) or a(to) due to the structural H20 may require explicit modeling of the membrane intrinsic field, for systems which contain biological membranes, and an altered ic (io) may obtain for such a case. Although the theory for the static complex permittivity, Kq in Eq. 

Figure 2. Complex permittivity of water at frequencies above 70 GHz ((V) from the present 70-GHz study (G) i calculated from the Debye model using r = 9.3 ps, ts = 80.1, and — 5.5 data of Asfar and Hasted (2) (---------------) i (A) <")...

These results led us to analyze the relationship between carrier-wave frequency and power density. We developed a mathematical model (6) which takes into account the changes in complex permittivity of brain tissue with frequency. This model predicted that a given electric-field intensity within a brain-tissue sample occurred at different exposure levels for 50-, 147-, and 450-MHz radiation. Using the calculated electric-field intensities in the sample as the independent variable, the model demonstrated that the RF-induced calcium-ion efflux results at one carrier frequency corresponded to those at the other frequencies for both positive and negative findings. In this paper, we present two additional experiments using 147-MHz radiation which further test both negative and positive predictions of this model. 

Keeping the average electric field intensity the same within a spherical model of chick-brain in buffer solution at different incident carrier wave frequencies requires that incident power density be changed with frequency to compensate for the change in complex permittivity and wavelength with frequency. The resulting Equations (3) and (A) relate corresponding values of P. at carrier frequencies of 50, 1A7, and A50 MHz. 1... 

Materials that exhibit a single relaxation time constant can be modeled by the Debye relation which appears as a characteristic response in the permittivity as a function of frequency. The complex permittivity diagram is called Cole-Cole diagram constructed by plotting e" vs. e with frequency as independent parameter. 

The dielectric relaxation at percolation was analyzed in the time domain since the theoretical relaxation model described above is formulated for the dipole correlation function T(f). For this purpose the complex dielectric permittivity data were expressed in terms of the DCF using (14) and (25). Figure 28 shows typical examples of the DCF, obtained from the frequency dependence of the complex permittivity at the percolation temperature, corresponding to several porous glasses studied recently [153-156]. 

The simplest model assumes that the N water molecules in each hydration sheath have a different relaxation time tji = pT from that of the pure water in the remaining volume of the solution, t . The water in the hydration sheath contributes a certain fraction q of the entire static permittivity of the solution. The frequency variation of the complex permittivity is taken to be a sum of two Debye terms (subsoripts w and h respectively for pure water and hydration sheath water) as shown in equation (47) where... 

The dielectric constant is a natural choice of order parameter to study freezing of dipolar liquids, because of the large change in the orientational polarizability between the liquid and solid phases. The dielectric relaxation time was calculated by fitting the dispersion spectrum of the complex permittivity near resonance to the Debye model of orientational relaxation. In the Debye dispersion relation (equation (3)), ij is the frequency of the applied potential and t is the orientational (rotational) relaxation time of a dipolar molecule. The subscript s refers to static permittivity (low frequency limit, when the dipoles have sufficient time to be in phase with the applied field). The subscript oo refers to the optical permittivity (high frequency limit) and is a measure of the induced component of the permittivity. 

The dielectric relaxation processes of matter can be analyzed with an empirical model of dielectric dispersion, for example, the one described by Havriliak-Negami s equation. " We analyzed dielectric data obtained for our samples using a model of complex permittivity k with two dispersions (the main and the low-frequency dispersion of a space charge effect) and conductivity ao (caused by electrode discharge), as follows ... 

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