Section 7.2 · Worked examples · 1 of 2
Worked example 7.2.1: An EMC stripline for immunity testing
Two short calculations tied to the applications, with the TEM line and the losses of this section (WR-90 and coax data quoted from Sections 7.3 and 7.5). Numerical constants: , , copper . Read the given quantities, pick the formula yourself, and only then put the numbers in.
An EMC stripline for immunity testing
#Given. A test stripline for car electronics: a septum wide, above a ground plane, air, fed from one end through a taper and terminated in a matched load at the other. Fringing neglected.
Find. (a) of the TEM mode, (b) the frequency at which TM and TE can first propagate, (c) the voltage and the power needed for a test field of and of , (d) and the power density at .
Under the septum the guide is a parallel-plate line carrying the TEM wave: a uniform field , , and the power of a matched line (amplitudes).
. Fringing changes this somewhat. Real cells are built for to .
. The finite width adds further modes, so such cells are used only to a few hundred MHz ( at ).
: and . : and , four times as much since .
and .
The Poynting flux over the cross-section, , equals the circuit power of part (c).
A few watts give a strong, uniform, plane-wave-like field that an antenna in a shielded room would need far more power to produce. The price is the upper frequency : the larger the device under test, the larger and the lower the usable band.
cf. Application 7.2.1