Enhanced Microwave Absorption for High Filler Content Composite Molded from Polymer Coated Flaky Carbonyl Irons Modified by Silane Coupling Agents

Abstract

A microwave absorbing sheet with a high complex permeability and a relatively low complex permittivity is obtained by molding of the densely coated flaky carbonyl iron particles (FCIPs) by styrenebutadiene-styrene block copolymer (SBS) in the assistance of coupling agent modification. Direct molding of the core-shell FCIPs without adding extra binder results in a large permeability due to the high filling ratio (55 vol%) of absorbents. Importantly, the permittivity is well suppressed by the dense insulate polymer shell on the FCIPs, avoiding the severe impedance mismatch problem of the high filler content microwave absorbing materials. Investigations show that modifying the surface of FCIPs by proper amount of silane coupling agent is critical for the coating quality of the SBS shell, which is verified by resistivity and corrosion current density measurements, and can be interpreted by improved interfacial compatibility between the modified FCIPs and SBS. The obtained microwave absorbing sheet shows a minimum reflection loss of −38.74 dB at 1.57 GHz and has an effective absorption bandwidth from 1.1 to 2.3 GHz at a relatively small thickness of 2 mm.

Keywords

microwave absorber / coating quality / magnetic permeability / permittivity / low frequency

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