The authors present transmission data, taken at Ka (36 GHz) and W (95 GHz) bands in the millimetre-wave region of the electromagnetic spectrum, for various dressing materials used in the treatment and management of burn wounds. The results show that such materials are highly transparent (typically > 90% transmission) and, in their dry state, will permit the sensing of the surface of the skin through the thick layers (> 2 cm) of different dressings typically applied in medical treatment of burn wounds. Furthermore, the authors present emissivity data, taken at the same frequency bands, for different regions of human skin on the arm and for samples of chicken flesh with and without skin and before and after localised heat treatment. In vivo human skin has a lower emissivity than chicken flesh samples, 0.3-0.5 compared to 0.6-0.7. However, changes in surface emissivity of chicken samples caused by the short-term application of heat are observable through dressing materials, indicating the feasibility of a millimetre-wave imaging to map changes in tissue emissivity for monitoring the state of burn wounds (and possibly other wounds) non-invasively and without necessitating the removal of the wound dressings.
-A free wave, transmission only technique for the determination of complex permittivity in the mm wave band 14 -40 GHz of planar samples of textiles is presented.W ith this method accurate alignment of source and detector horns is not required and time gating methods to reduce or remove standing wave interference between horns is replaced by a data smoothing process. Transmittance measurements are taken at discrete angles of incidence ( 0 to 65 degrees) for TE ( s) polarised mm waves and the data is then smoothed to remove standing wave interference effects between transmitter and receiver horns. The resulting data is fitted to a mathematical model of an infinite planar sheet of isotropic complex permittivity in air and the permittivity parameters that best fit the data to the model are presented. The textiles investigated here are denim ( cotton) and cow leather ( two colours, Red and Beige). This method is shown to be simple to set up, easy to use and fast when compared with other methods such as free wave reflectance and transmittance or FabryPerot cavity and gives results which are accurate enough for most practical applications.Significant difference in the absorption of mm-wave power between the two leather samples is observed. This can be explained by the different chemical composition of the two leather samples, investigated using a Scanning Electron Microscope with Electron Dispersive Spectrometry, which is almost certainly a result of the colouring process employed.
Conventional S20 multialkali photocathodes have a wide wavelength coverage from < 200 to > 850 nm, but their high transparency and the surface work function result in low quantum efficiencies at longer wavelengths. Theoretical modelling of the photon and excited electron interactions that define the cathode performance provides a realistic prediction of the measured response. The theory emphasizes that the basic light absorption is strongly sensitive to the cathode thickness, wavelength, polarization and incident angle. Parameters can be selected which predict that even at long wavelengths (e.g. 900 nm), absorption may be increased from ∼1% to ∼100%. Cathode topographies can be designed to exploit these responses and offer increased absorption at the longer wavelengths. Alternative designs, which include waveguiding of light within the cathode window, or in structured surfaces, can similarly lead to almost total absorption of the incident light by increasing the number of interactions. These concepts of optimal incidence and waveguiding have been both theoretically modelled and demonstrated in newly fabricated cathode designs. The methods have variously reached quantum efficiencies in excess of 50% at wavelengths in the range from 200 to > 750 nm under different operational conditions. The improvement factors relative to normal incidence on planar cathodes increase for longer wavelengths, and examples of 20–50 times by ∼900 nm were noted. Whilst the absolute S20 efficiency values at long wavelengths are still small, the improvements offer a usable sensitivity even beyond 1 µm, as demonstrated by spectroscopy data up to at least 1140 nm.
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