Czech Journal of Food Sciences (Feb 2003)

Properties of thin metallic films for microwave susceptors

  • J. Česnek,
  • J. Dobiáš,
  • J. Houšová,
  • J. Sedláček

DOI
https://doi.org/10.17221/3475-CJFS
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 1
pp. 34 – 40

Abstract

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Thin Al films of varying thickness, i.e. 3 to 30 nm, were deposited onto polyethylene-terephthalate film by evaporation in the vacuum of 3 × 10-3 Pa. The dependence of DC (direct current) surface resistance on thickness was measured using a four-point method. The surface resistance exhibits the size effect in accordance with the Fuchs-Sondheimer theory. The microwave absorption properties of the prepared films of various metallization thickness were measured in a microwave field at the microwave power of 1.8 mW. The maximum microwave absorption at 2.45 GHz was found to occur in a layer of optical density of about 0.22.

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