Lossy Medium
Again, similar as for absolute permittivity, relative permittivity for lossy materials can be formulated as:
in terms of a "dielectric conductivity" σ (units S/m, siemens per meter), which "sums over all the dissipative effects of the material; it may represent an actual conductivity caused by migrating charge carriers and it may also refer to an energy loss associated with the dispersion of ε' " (, p. 8). Expanding the angular frequency ω = 2πc/λ and the electric constant ε0 = 1/(µ0c2), it reduces to:
where λ is the wavelength, c is the speed of light in vacuum and κ = µ0c/2π ≈ 60.0 S−1 is a newly-introduced constant (units reciprocal of siemens, such that σλκ = εr" remains unitless).
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