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There are often other contributions to power loss for electromagnetic waves that are not included in this expression, such as due to the wall currents of the conductors of a transmission line or waveguide. Also, a similar analysis could be applied to the magnetic permeability where
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A real capacitor has a lumped element model of a lossless ideal capacitor in series with an equivalent series resistance (ESR). The loss tangent is defined by the angle between the capacitor's impedance vector and the negative reactive
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components of the propagating waves that satisfy the boundary conditions of the specific environment's geometry. In such electromagnetic analyses, the parameters
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typically dominates loss in a particular dielectric and manufacturing method. For the case of the conduction electrons being the dominant loss, then
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of the angle between the capacitor's impedance vector and the negative reactive axis, as shown in the adjacent diagram. The loss tangent is then
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For dielectrics with small loss, square root can be approximated using only zeroth and first order terms of binomial expansion. Also,
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charge and dipole relaxation phenomena, which gives rise to energy loss that is indistinguishable from the loss due to the
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Since power is electric field intensity squared, it turns out that the power decays with propagation distance
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power oscillating in the capacitor. For this reason, a capacitor's loss tangent is sometimes stated as its
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is a discrete electrical circuit component typically made of a dielectric placed between conductors. One
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is then defined as the ratio (or angle in a complex plane) of the lossy reaction to the electric field
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of a capacitor includes a lossless ideal capacitor in series with a resistor termed the
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represents the familiar lossless permittivity given by the product of the
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simply the resistance that would be measured across a capacitor by an
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When representing the electrical circuit parameters as vectors in a
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Amount of electromagnetic energy dissipated by a dielectric material
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Solution for the electric field of the electromagnetic wave is
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upon introduction of an effective dielectric conductivity (see
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through which the waves propagate. The permittivity can have
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is the imaginary component of permittivity attributed to
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If we assume that we have a wave function such that
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