Development of the shielding materials having the highly orientation characteristics in the RF magnetic field

The conventional electromagnetic shielding technique is all but impossible to fundamental solution of the problems in the information and communication fields, such as virtual image for radar. Namely, it is necessary to receive a required electromagnetic wave as the information signal, and to shield a needless electromagnetic wave as the noise, the present research has developed the carbon, copper, ferrite, and BPSCCO plates, as the typical shielding material, having the orientation characteristics in the RF (radio frequency) magnetic field. To exhibit the orientation characteristics in the plane wave, it has formed the slit on the surface of typical shielding materials; termed the slit plate. For example, the value of RF magnetic shielding degree SD HP of slit carbon plate for holding the slit perpendicularly to the ground increased with frequency in the region from 1 MHz (7 dB) to 3 GHz (70 dB). And, the value of SDHH when holding the slit horizontally is indicated an average value of approximately 10 dB in this frequency region. That is, the difference values, SDHP-SDHH, indicated the orientation characteristics. Experimental results revealed several characteristics of the slit plates that include the influences of orientation characteristics on the slit length, slit width, and slit number. In the present paper, it was succeeded to improved the difference average value of approximately 35 dB for 5DHP-SDHH, by the sandwich of slit ferrite plate over a slit carbon plate, in the civilian communication frequency region from 1 MHz to 3 GHz. In addition, important criteria are discussed for the design of an effective RF magnetic shielding plate having orientation characteristics. © 2010 The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan.