RE: [SI-LIST] : Question on propogation of high freq. signal in conductors

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From: Jian X. Zheng ([email protected])
Date: Tue Sep 19 2000 - 08:42:00 PDT


Hi,Prasanna:

In short, the skin effect causes the current to be flowing on the surface of
a conductor. In fact, you can demonstrate such a phenomenon on a plane wave
incident onto a big sheet of metal:

     \
      \ plane wave
       \
---------------------------------------- top surface of the metal sheet
        |
        | plane wave in the metal
        |
---------------------------------------- bottom surface of the metal sheet
         \
          \ transmitted plane wave
           \

When a plane wave is incident onto the surface, you will see the electric
field is exponentially decaying in the -z direction. J = Sigma * E, where E
is the electric field, J is the current and Sigma is the conductivity. In
the other word, the J is exponentially decaying and the decaying factor is
very big. It is just like the current only exists on the surface of the
metal sheet. Thanks!

Best regards,

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