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11/5/13

Conductor Bulk Resistivity & Skin Depths at High Frequencies Microwave RF - RF Cafe

Material

Aluminum
Beryllium
Brass
Bronze
C arbon
C admium
C hromium
C obalt
C onstantan
C opper
Dural
Gallium
Gold
Graphite
Inconel alloy 600
Indium
Iridium
Iron
Lead
Lithium
Magnesium
Mercury
Molybdenum
Monel alloy 400
mu-Metal
Nickel
Nichrome
Palladium
Platinum
Potassium
Rhodium
Silver
Sodium
Steel
Tantalum
T antalum N itride

Tin (pure)
Titanium
Tungsten
Urnaium
Yttrium
Zinc
Zirconium

Chem ical
Form ula

Bulk
Resistivity
@20C
cm
(10-8m )

Al
Be
C u70/Zn30
C u89/Sn11
C (graphite)
Cd
Cr
Co
C u60Ni40
Cu
Al95/C u 4/Mg 1
Ga
Au
C
Ni72/C r16/Fe 8
In
Ir
Fe
Pb
Li
Mg
Hg
Mo
Ni65/C u33/Fe 2
Ni
Ni80/C r20
Pd
Pt
K
Rh
Ag
Na

2.65
3.3
7
15
1375
7.3
13.2
6.34
49
1.69
5
15.5
2.2
783.7
103
8.8
5.1
10.1
20.6
9.29
4.2
95.9
5.7
49
47
6.9
108
10.8
10.58
6.8
4.7
1.63
4.9

Ta
TaN
Sn
Ti
W
U
Y
Zn
Zr

13.5
252
12.6
54
5.4
27
53
5.96
44

Skin Depth
(m @f)
Relative Perm eability /0

1
1
1
1

1
600
1

1
1

500
1
1
1
1
30,000
200
1
1
1
1

1
MHz

10
100
MHz MHz

1
GHz

10
GHz

100
GHz

81.9
91.4
133
195
1866
136
183
5.8
352
65.4
112.54
198
74.7
1409
511
149
114
7.2
228
153
103
493
120
352
2.0
9.3
523
165
164
131
109
64.3
111

25.9
28.9
42.1
61.6
590
43.0
57.8
1.6
111
20.7
35.6
62.7
23.6
446
162
47.2
35.9
2.3
72.2
48.5
32.6
156
38.0
111
0.64
3.0
165
52.3
51.8
41.5
34.5
20.3
35.2

8.19 2.59 0.819 0.259


9.14 2.89 0.914 0.289
13.3 4.21 1.33
0.421
19.5 6.16 1.95
0.616
187 59.0 18.7
5.90
13.6 4.30 1.36
0.430
18.3 5.78 1.83
0.578
0.52 0.16 0.052 0.016
35.2 11.1 3.52
1.11
6.54 2.07 0.654 0.207
11.3 3.56 1.13
0.356
19.8 6.27 1.98
0.627
7.47 2.36 0.747 0.236
141 44.6 14.1
4.46
51.1 16.2 5.11
1.62
14.9 4.72 1.49
0.472
11.4 3.59 1.14
0.359
0.72 0.23 0.072 0.023
22.8 7.22 2.28
0.722
15.3 4.85 1.53
0.485
10.3 3.26 1.03
0.326
49.3 15.6 4.93
1.56
12.0 3.80 1.20
0.380
35.2 11.1 3.52
1.11
0.20 0.064 0.020 0.0064
.093 0.30 0.093 0.030
52.3 16.5 5.23
1.65
16.5 5.23 1.65
0.523
16.4 5.18 1.64
0.518
13.1 4.15 1.31
0.415
10.9 3.45 1.09
0.345
6.43 2.03 0.643 0.203
11.1 3.52 1.11
0.352

185
799
179
370
117
262
366
123
334

58.5
253
56.5
117
37.0
82.7
116
38.9
106

18.5
79.9
17.9
37.0
11.7
26.2
36.6
12.3
33.4

100

www.rfcafe.com/references/electrical/cond-high-freq.htm

1
1
1

5.85
25.3
5.65
11.7
3.70
8.27
11.6
3.89
10.6

1.85
7.99
1.79
3.70
1.17
2.62
3.66
1.23
3.34

0.585
2.53
0.565
1.17
0.370
0.827
1.16
0.389
1.06

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