I doubt the differences from 1 will affect any calculations. But just in case... I noticed that magnetic susceptibility is more commonly given for metals rather than permeability. Is there a way to calculate permeability from susceptibility? Daniel From: "Bart Bouma" <bart.bouma@xxxxxxxxx> > Hi all, > I'm not a specialist on this too, but some materials are used in MLCCs. > > This is what I wrote to Mark: > > " Nickel is a ferro-magnetic metal: these have high permeability values > (upto 800,000 for alloys) > > Gold, copper, silver etc. are diamagnetic materials: relative permeability > just below 1. > > Gold: 0.99996 > Copper: 0.99999 > > Paramagnetic materials: values for relative permeability also around 1, > but just above. > e.g. Palladium is a material belonging to the last category: (Palladium: > ur = 1.00078) > > Sorry, but I didn't find values for molybenum and tungsten, but I think > (!) that these are either diamagnetic or paramagnetic materials. > So take ur = 1. " > > > best regards, Bart Bouma > appl. eng. MLCC & X2Y > www.yageo.com > > > > > > "Knighten, Jim L" <JK100005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > 07-11-03 00:55 > Sent by: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Please respond to JK100005 > > > To: mark.walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > cc: > Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: relative magnetic permeability of > tungsten, molybde num... > proving hard to find > Category: > > > > Mark, > > I'm not an expert, but I think that gold, molybdenum, and tungsten have > relative permeabilities of 1. I don't believe they are magnetic. > > Jim > > ________________________ > James L. Knighten, Ph.D. > Teradata, a division of NCR http://www.ncr.com > 17095 Via del Campo > San Diego, CA 92127 > tel: 858-485-2537 > fax: 858-485-3788 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On > Behalf Of WALKER, Mark > Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 9:11 AM > To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [SI-LIST] relative magnetic permeability of tungsten, > molybdenum... > proving hard to find > > > All, can you help me out with the relative magnetic permeability of a few > conductors? > > I've spent most of the afternoon using google and searching through the > numerous engineering, physics & chemistry handbooks in our library, all to > no avail. I'm looking at materials used for MCM conductors plus a few > others > for comparison, with a view to analysing the effects on multi-gigabit > serial > link type signals. > > Ideally, I'd like to complete the following list for relative magnetic > permeability, Ur: > > copper, Ur = 1. > gold > molybdenum > tungsten > nickel, Ur in the range 5 to 20 (assume 10) at 1 GHz (see Johnson & > Graham, > black magic 2, p267). > > However, even if such figures are forthcoming, are they close enough to > the > paste like compounds used for MCM conductors? > > Cheers, > Mark. > > Stevenage, > England. -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Search Smarter - get the new eXact Search Bar for free! http://www.exactsearchbar.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu