Brad: You are definitely right to contact an ansoft AE. However, it could also be nice to have another source of data. Hope people doing similar stuff can share their material library. Regards, Neo --- On Wed, 3/3/10, Brad Brim <bradb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Brad Brim <bradb@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: RE: [SI-LIST] Simulating FR4 trace with frequency dependent Er To: "'Neo'" <neoflash2008@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 3:36 AM hi Neo, your best bet is to contact your local Ansys apps engineer Of course, Q3D is a DC RLC extractor so not certain how much frequency dependent material properties is going to buy you :-) Any Q3D "extraction frequency" is to define the skin loss approximation applied for so-called AC results that are actually provided from a magnetostatic (i.e. DC) solver which uses surface currents. regards, -Brad > -----Original Message----- > From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Neo > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 7:10 PM > To: List Si > Subject: [SI-LIST] Simulating FR4 trace with frequency dependent Er > > Hi experts on field solver, > Do we have a good reference to teach people how to generate a > material with frequency dependent Er in HFSS/Q3D? > > Regards, > Neo ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu