Characterisation of Attenuation by Sand in Low-THz Band

Rui Du; Fatemeh Norouzian; Emidio Marchetti; Ben Willetts; Marina Gashinova; Mikhail Cherniakov

doi:10.1109/RADAR.2017.7944215

Characterisation of Attenuation by Sand in Low-THz Band

Rui Du, Fatemeh Norouzian, Emidio Marchetti, Ben Willetts, Marina Gashinova, Mikhail Cherniakov

Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering

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Abstract

Research to quantify the attenuation of 150 GHz and 300 GHz EM waves in sand has been conducted and the results are presented in this paper to investigate the performance of low-THz sensing for outdoor applications when an antenna
radome might be contaminated by sand, which is one of the most common types of contaminant in outdoor environments. The signal power deviation has been studied as a function of sand thickness and granule size. Five kinds of granule-size-calibrated silica sands and natural sand were used in the experiment. While
the results confirms expected greater attenuation at 300 GHz than that at 150 GHz, it has also been shown that sand composed of coarser particles provide greater attenuation than that of finer particles, which challenges some previously reported results.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2017 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf)
Publisher	IEEE Xplore
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4673-8823-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR.2017.7944215
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 8 Jul 2017
Event	2017 IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf 2017 - Seattle, United States Duration: 8 May 2017 → 12 May 2017

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Conference	2017 IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf 2017
Country/Territory	United States
City	Seattle
Period	8/05/17 → 12/05/17

Keywords

Low-THz wave
transmissivity
sand
automotive

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