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- From: massoud@chemteca.sdsu.edu (Massoud Ajami)
- Subject: Re: coating materials for antennas
- Message-ID: <massoud.70.715110242@chemteca.sdsu.edu>
- Summary: Aluminum in aluminum oxide is OK
- Keywords: antennas materials
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- References: <1992Aug28.205111.26384@alw.nih.gov> <1992Aug29.013405.19453@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 17:44:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug29.013405.19453@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
- >From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
- >Subject: Re: coating materials for antennas
- >Summary: Aluminum in aluminum oxide is OK
- >Keywords: antennas materials
- >Date: 29 Aug 92 01:34:05 GMT
- >The usual practice with aluminum antennas is not to coat them. They
- >coat themselves with aluminum oxide. I don't see how the skin effect
- >would be any different with aluminum in oxide than with aluminum in air.
- >(The aluminum oxide is a very good insulator.)
- >
- >Now of course you would have skin effect problems if the coating were
- >somewhat conductive (but less so than the metal) and the transition
- >from metal to coating were not sharp. But I haven't heard of this kind
- >of problem with aluminum.
- >
- >--
- >+ Michael Covington - Artificial Intelligence Programs - U of Georgia - USA
- >+ Unless otherwise noted, these are private opinions, not official statements.
- >+ VOTE NO GEORGIA LOTTERY - we need not imitate mistakes of other states.
-
- Confirming the above, aluminum oxide acts as a diode, and their effect shows
- in power lines not in high frequency. Skin depth at 100 MHz. is about 8
- micro meter, far below the diode region if there is any. Perhaps, the paint
- company needed new market.
-
-
- Peace and Prosperity!
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