The effect of shape and sizes of particles of wet quartz powders on complex dielectric permittivity in the frequency range of 10 kHz – 10 GHz

Abstract

Abstract The results of experimental studies of complex dielectric permeability of river sand and powders of granules of fused quartz with narrow distributions of particles in size at the frequencies from 10 kHz to 10 GHz are presented. The granule particles are spheres and the sand particles are irregularly shaped. The samples were moistened with distilled water and NaCl salt solution with conductivity of 0.1 and 0.77 S/m. It has been shown that the shape of the particles affects the complex dielectric permittivity (CDP) in the low frequency part of the range only when proportion of the solution is small and its concentration is weak. At full saturation of the samples with the solution and its high concentration, as well as in all cases at frequencies above 100 MHz, the influence of the particle shape is small. In the mid-frequency part of the range (from units to tens of megahertz) in a sample of quartz granules with small particles, there is a strong relaxation process, leading to a significant increase in the real part of the CDP. A similar, but slight increase is observed in samples of sand with larger particles. In the high-frequency range, the effect of the shape and particle sizes is very weak.