Electromagnetic properties of Fe53Ni47 and Fe53Ni47/Cu granular composite materials in the microwave range

The electromagnetic proprieties of Fe53Ni47 granular composite materials and Fe53Ni47/Cu hybrid granular composites have been studied by measuring the relative complex permeability and permittivity spectra as well as the ac electrical conductivity. In the Fe53Ni47 composite, the variation of the ac conductivity at 1 kHz with the particle volume content shows an insulator-metal transition at the percolation threshold at 61 vol% particle content. A negative permeability spectrum due to the magnetic resonance in Fe53Ni47 particles was observed in the 85 vol% composite. Meanwhile, the negative permittivity spectrum caused by the plasmoinc state of the percolated Fe53Ni47 particle clusters appears at 90 vol%. The Fe53Ni47/Cu hybrid composite containing 85 vol% of Fe53Ni47/Cu hybrid particle as filers shows the percolative metallic properties; the ac conductivity increases with increasing the Cu particle volume fraction in the Fe53Ni47/Cu particle system. The negative permittivity spectrum appears above the Cu particle volume fraction of 0.16; the double negative characteristic was observed at that of 0.20 and 0.24 hybrid composites in the frequency range from 300 MHz to 1.8 GHz in the absence of the external magnetic field.