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Interactions Between Slots, Apertures, and External


Features in Shielding Enclosures
James C. West, Senior Member, IEEE, Mehdi Bahadorzadeh, Charles F. Bunting, Fellow, IEEE,

Abstract—A susceptibility was identified experimentally when 0


Without Ear
With Ear
an external feature was added near an irregular aperture that -10

spanned two faces of the shielding enclosure of an equipment

Power (dBm)
-20

under test. The susceptibility was due to a resonant response -30

that occurred at a lower frequency than that expected by the -40


resonances of the aperture, enclosure cavity, or external feature
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considered in isolation. Numerical modeling showed that currents 200 300 400 500 600 700
Frequency (MHz)
800 900 1000

induced on the exterior of the enclosure when the external


feature is in place couple to the currents surrounding the
aperture, leading to a longer resonant length than provided by the
aperture alone. The resonant response giving the susceptibility
was observed with various changes in aperture and external
feature dimensions, provided that the aperture spanned two faces
and the external feature was aligned with the enclosure edge
that the aperture spanned. The low-frequency susceptibility can Mechanism of measured low-frequency susceptibility
be mitigated by electrically connecting the external feature to revealed through simulation
the enclosure edge to interrupt the external current path. The
higher-frequency resonant coupling due to the irregular aperture
alone was not affected by the suppression of the external current.
indicated a mitigation technique to avoid similar susceptibil-
Index Terms—Electromagnetic shielding; Immunity testing; ities in the future. Preliminary results were reported in [7].
Computational electromagnetics Refined experimental and numerical results are reported here
and the mitigation approach is further evaluated.

I. I NTRODUCTION II. G EOMETRY


Slots, apertures, and other features in electronic equipment The geometry of the shielding box is shown in Fig. 1. The
enclosures for cooling, access, or installation that allow elec- main enclosure is a 31.8 cm long by 28.5 cm wide by 17.5
tromagnetic energy to enter or exit the enclosure, potentially cm high rectangular box made of aluminum. The enclosure
introducing electromagnetic interference between systems [1], includes a hybrid slot/aperture feature that extends across two
[2]. Analytical prediction of the coupled fields are available faces, as shown. The slot section is 2.5 mm in height and
only for ideal, regularly shaped apertures, such as isolated extends 23 cm along the base-edge of the 31.8 cm by 17.5 cm
rectangles or circles on a single wall, under special conditions, side panel (labeled “Side B” in the figure) of the enclosure.
such as high frequency or at aperture resonances [3], [4]. It is connected to the 2.75 cm by 4.75 cm aperture on the
Reliable determination of equipment susceptibilities require
extensive experimental [5] or numerical [6] investigation of
Take-Home Messages:
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a particular configuration when the aperture is irregularly
shaped. The situation is further complicated when conducting features can couple with irregular apertures
features external to the shielding enclosure are located near in shielding enclosures to introduce unexpected suscep-

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the aperture. The external features can electromagnetically tances.
couple to the aperture and affect the field introduced within the Measured susceptances are numerically modeled and

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enclosure. Small changes in the overall geometry can introduce analyzed.
very large changes in the susceptibility at specific frequencies. Currents induced on external features and enclosure ex-
Recently, an unexpected susceptibility was identified within terior can couple to currents surrounding opening to give

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an enclosure box when an external feature was added near low-frequency resonant susceptances.
an irregular enclosure aperture. The susceptibility appeared at The unexpected susceptances can be mitigated by inter-

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a frequency well below the first resonance of the irregular rupting the external current paths.
aperture. A numerical study has been performed to reveal the Seemingly negligible changes in external geometry can
electromagnetic phenomena that led to the susceptibility, and yield large differences in shielding effectiveness at some
frequencies. Testing of enclosures should be performed
The authors are with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with the final installation configuration.
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma. jim.west@okstate.edu

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Fig. 2: Measurement probe position.

Fig. 1: Enclosure box geometry viewed from two angles.


Labeled are the slot, aperture, ear, and gap between
the ear body and enclosure body. Fig. 3: Measurement in anechoic chamber.

adjacent 28.5 cm by 17.5 cm face (“Side A”) to create a single 2.73 GHz. As will be seen, however, the joined slot/aperture
opening that connects the interior and exterior environments. hybrid yields a lower resonant frequency than either of these
A removable external conducting feature, termed the “ear”, features alone. The first resonance of the measurement probe
is also shown in the figure. The main body of the ear is would occurs when it is approximately 0.235 wavelengths
15 cm in vertical height by 4 cm wide by 0.5 cm thick. in length at 588 MHz [10]. The ear would also act as a
The ear is electrically connected to the extended base plate monopole if placed over a ground plane in isolation from the
of the enclosure through the 2.5 cm length, 0.5 cm by 0.5 cm remaining structure, with a first resonance at approximately
cross-section stem as shown, giving a total length of 17.5 cm 410 MHz, although the irregular shape would likely change
that matches that of the enclosure height. The main body of that somewhat.
the ear is separated from the edge of the box by the 3 mm
“gap” so does not make electrical contact along the edge of III. M EASUREMENTS
the enclosure. The gap represents the electrical isolation of The measurements were performed in an anechoic chamber
the ear and enclosure body that was introduced when the that includes both high-frequency pyramidal foam and low-
individual components of production equipment were coated frequency ferrite-tile absorbers for operation from 80 MHz
with non-conductive paint [8]. The gap was expanded to 3 mm to 18 GHz. The test configuration is shown in Fig. 3. Mea-
to allow efficient numerical modeling while fully maintaining surements were performed from 200 MHz to 1 GHz using
the electromagnetic effects to be analyzed here. a vector network analyzer. The source antenna was a wide-
A probe was introduced into the box to provide a controlled band log-periodic antenna placed 3 m from the test enclosure.
geometry that allows direct validation of the numerical simu- The test box was oriented so that the incident field was
lations against measurement. It was placed 2.82 cm from the normally incident on the 31.8 cm by 15.7 cm face of the
corner of the enclosure that included the aperture, equidistant enclosure that included the slot. The ear (when installed) and
from each wall, as shown in Fig. 2. The measurement probe slot were therefore directly illuminated while the side aperture
was a 12 cm long, 2 mm radius wire fed through a surface- was not. The S21 scattering parameter between the source
mount SMA connector, forming an electric monopole with a antenna and measurement antenna feed ports was directly
50 Ω feed impedance. measured. The measured S21 was then converted to the power
Several resonances would be associated with the individual that would be received by a 1 V/m plane wave incident on the
structures when considered in isolation. The dominant mode of enclosure using the antenna factor specifications provided by
the enclosure cavity is 724 MHz. The first resonance of the slot the manufacturer at both vertical and horizontal polarization.
portion of the hybrid opening would appear at 613 MHz [9]. The measured received powers both without and with the
The first resonance of the aperture would be expected at ear in place with a vertically polarized incident field are shown

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0 The illuminating field was an ideal, 1 V/m magnitude uniform


Without Ear
With Ear plane wave incident normally on the wall of the enclosure
-10 that contains the slot, matching the illumination of the mea-
surements. The simulations were initially performed with the
Power (dBm)

-20
wire monopole probe modeled to match the measurement
configuration. A 50 Ω port was placed at the base of the
-30
modeled monopole probe, representing the VNA measurement
-40
port at the enclosure SMA feed.

-50
A. Validation
200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000
Frequency (MHz)
Figure 5 shows the numerically calculated power dissipated
in the 50 Ω port when the incident field was vertically polar-
Fig. 4: Experimentally measured received power at measure- ized and the measurement probe was placed in the position
ment port with normally incident 1 V/m vertically shown in Fig. 2. The figure shows overall good agreement
polarized plane wave. with measurements performed with the same geometry in
Fig. 4. The 730 MHz cavity-resonance effects are predicted,
0
Without Ear as is the shift in the 400 MHz resonance and appearance of
With Ear
-10
the 230 MHz response when the ear is added. The primary
differences are that the relative signal levels are higher in the
Power (dBm)

-20 simulations, likely due to fabrication tolerances in the physical


enclosure and imperfect conversion of the measurements from
-30 S21 into power. However, the mechanisms leading to the
various resonances are clearly captured in the simulations,
-40
so the numerical model can be used to analyze the physical
mechanisms responsible.
-50
200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000
Frequency (MHz) B. Measurement Probe Effects
Fig. 5: Numerical simulation of power measured by measure- It was noted that the anomalous response at 230 MHz in
ment probe. Figs. 4 and 5 could be an artifact of direct interactions between
the measurement monopole and the aperture/slot, and/or the
ear. The numerical simulations were therefore repeated with
in Fig. 4. In both cases, the effect of the first cavity resonance the monopole removed and the electric fields excited within
is apparent at 730 MHz. When the ear is not in place (solid the enclosure directly monitored. The electric field strengths at
line), there is a wide-band response from 400 MHz to above a point on the axis of the now-removed probe, 2.5 cm above
600 MHz, somewhat elevated at 400 MHz. The response the base plate (3.77 cm from the aperture corner) are show
monotonically decreases with decreasing frequency below in Fig. 6(a). The broad responses from 400 MHz to above
400 MHz. The measured response is significantly changed 600 MHz when the monopole is in place are reduced to single
when the ear is in place (dashed line). The lower limit of the resonant responses at 440 MHz or 490 MHz when the ear is or
broad response is shifted up to 465 MHz. More surprisingly, a is not in place, respectively. The measurement probe resonance
new, strong resonant response appears centered near 230 MHz, at 588 MHz therefore affected the measured response. More
the peak of which is not fully captured in the coarse frequency importantly for this study, however, the resonance response
sampling of the measurements. This frequency is well below at 230 MHz again appears when the ear is in place but not
that expected from the resonant frequencies of the individual when the ear is removed. The field test point is moved to one-
enclosure components. The peak is more than 10 dB greater quarter of each dimension of the enclosure (7.95 cm, 7.125 cm,
than the signal without the ear in place. The magnitude and 3.925 cm) from the aperture/slot corner (11.37 cm total) in part
center frequency was affected by the precise placement of the (b) of Fig. 6. The 230 MHz resonance is observed when the
ear. The resonant response led to an unexpected susceptibility ear is in place, although at a reduced level due to the greater
at 230 MHz in the equipment under test when the ear was in distance from the aperture corner.
place. Additional results not shown demonstrated that the
The susceptibility also appeared at a similar level when 230 MHz resonance effect appears throughout the enclosure
the incident field was horizontally polarized. These results are when the ear is attached, with the excited field strength
omitted for brevity. exceeding that when the ear is not attached by approximately
20 dB and the absolute level of the response dependent
IV. N UMERICAL I NVESTIGATION upon the distance from the aperture corner. As the resonance
A numerical study was undertaken to identify both the remains when the measurement probe is removed, it is due
mechanism by which the unexpected measured susceptibility solely to the interactions between the ear and the enclosure
was created and a mitigation approach. The numerical cal- and is not a measurement artifact. The mechanism that yields
culations were performed using the CST Studio Suite [11]. this resonance is now considered.

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wall. The slot is the only coupling between the internal and
Without Ear
20 With Ear external environments in this configuration. The field at the test
Electric Field Strength (dB V/m)

point 11.37 cm within the enclosure (matching Fig. 5(b)) is


10 shown as the solid blue trace in Fig. 7. Two resonances where
the signal coupled into the cavity are maximized appear in the
0
response. The higher-frequency resonance at 730 MHz is again
-10
due to the first cavity mode. The lower frequency resonance is
at 660 MHz, slightly higher than the frequency where the slot
-20 is λ/2 in length, where λ is the electromagnetic wavelength.
The surface currents induced on the structure by the incident
200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000
Frequency (MHz)
plane wave at the 660 MHz resonance, numerically found by
CST, are shown in Fig. 8(a). The current pattern corresponds
(a) At the point 3.77 cm from the aperture corner identified in Fig. 2.
a classic half-wave slot resonance, and the slot behaves as a
resonant magnetic dipole [9]. The surface current null is at the
Without Ear center of the slot, corresponding to maximum magnetic current
20 With Ear
Electric Field Strength (dB V/m)

of the equivalent magnetic dipole. The resonance frequency of


10 the slot is somewhat higher than expected (660 MHz versus
613 MHz), likely because slot does not appear in an ideal
0 planar surface but on the edge of an enclosure near a corner.
The surface currents induced when both the aperture and
-10
slot, but not the ear, are retained are shown in Fig. 8(b).
-20
The operating frequency is 440 MHz, corresponding to the
resonance in the solid trace in Fig. 6. The slot+aperture
200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 opening is again acting as a resonant structure similar to a
Frequency (MHz)
magnetic dipole. However, the effective length of the dipole
(b) At a point 11.37 cm from the aperture corner. is longer than with the slot alone due to the added aperture,
Fig. 6: Numerical simulation of the electric field excited at giving the lower frequency resonance. The null in the currents
points within the enclosure when the measurement surrounding the slot has shifted toward the aperture, showing
monopole is removed. the larger effective magnetic dipole arm length compared that
in Fig. 8(a). Additional simulations showed that the resonant
Aperture Removed
20 Ear Shorted Full Length frequency could be increased or decreased, with corresponding
Electric Field Strength (dB V/m)

Ear Shorted at Body shift in the current null, by reducing or enlarging the dimen-
10 sions of the aperture.
Finally, the surface currents induced at the 230 MHz reso-
0
nance frequency in the dashed trace of Fig. 6 when the ear is
attached are shown in Fig. 8(c). Strong currents are flowing
-10
around the slot and aperture, as expected, but also the vertical
-20
corner of the box near the ear. The edge and slot currents join
together to give a continuous current path that appears to act
200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000
as a single resonant system that is considerably longer than the
Frequency (MHz)
slot or edge alone. The long length of the resonance allows the
low frequency energy to couple into the cavity. This behavior
Fig. 7: Numerical simulation fields excited at the point was surprising since the vertical edge does not include an
11.37 cm within the enclosure with various modifi- opening between the two regions above the aperture.
cations to the enclosure/ear structure.
Additional simulations showed that reducing the height of
the ear or increasing the size of the air gap between the ear and
enclosure edge raised the frequency of the resonant coupling.
C. Resonance Mechanism
However, a low-frequency susceptibility remained under all
The surface currents excited on the enclosure structure with configurations considered where an external ear-type structure
various geometrical changes, as found numerically, are now that was attached only to the base ground plane was included.
considered to reveal the mechanisms that lead to the strong
coupling of the 230 MHz signal into the enclosure box. The
calculations shown were performed without the measurement D. Mitigation
probe in place to avoid any undesired interactions. Nearly As noted, the low-frequency susceptibility results because
identical surface currents were observed at the 230 MHz strong currents induced on the edge of the enclosure effectively
frequency of primary interest when the probe was included. increase the continuous current path length of the slot/aperture
We first consider a modified enclosure that replaces the structure and yield a low-frequency resonance. Mitigation was
aperture section of the slot/aperture structure with a conducting therefore approached by interrupting the current path. Two

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(a) Slot alone with no aperture or ear. Frequency = 660 MHz. (b) With aperture and slot but without ear. Frequency = 450 MHz.

(c) Full structure with ear. Frequency = 230 MHz. (d) Full structure with ear shorted to enclosure edge. Frequency =
230 MHz.

(e) Full structure with ear. Frequency = 490 MHz. (f) Full structure with ear shorted to enclosure edge. Frequency =
490 MHz.

Fig. 8: Surface current magnitudes excited on the enclosure and ear. (The ear partially blocks the view of the
aperture in parts (c) through (f).)

approaches were numerically tested. In the first, the ear was of whether the ear body is electrically isolated from (dashed
moved slightly to remove the air gap so that the main body trace in Fig. 6) or connected to (dashed or dot-dashed trace
of the ear was electrically connected to the enclosure body in Fig. 7) the enclosure. The induced surface currents at
everywhere above the aperture. In the second, the ear was 490 MHz when the ear is not and is shorted to the edge
short-circuited to the body only at the point directly above the are shown in parts e) and f) of Fig. 8, respectively. As at
aperture; the air gap was retained above the short circuit point. 230 MHz, the unshorted ear induces currents on the vertical
The fields within the enclosure at the monitor point induced edge of the enclosure. However, the currents surrounding the
by the incident plane wave are shown as the red dot-dashed aperture/slot opening and on the extension of the ear where it is
and yellow dashed lines in Fig. 7. The two responses are quite connected to the ground plane are virtually unchanged. Unlike
similar, and both geometrical changes are equally effective in at 230 MHz, the vertical-edge currents do not contribute to the
removing the low-frequency susceptibility. field coupled into the cavity at this frequency. The 490 MHz
The induced surface currents at 230 MHz with the ear response is due to the first magnetic dipole resonance of
shorted to the enclosure only at the base of its main body are the aperture/slot opening, with the frequency perturbed from
shown in Fig. 8d. While weak currents are still induced both on 440 MHz to 490 MHz by the currents on the stem of the ear
the edge above the short and around the slot, the short circuit where it is connected to the ground plane.
point isolates them and they cannot act as a single resonant
feature. The 230 MHz coupling is there not established. V. C ONCLUSIONS
Interestingly, a resonant 490 MHz field coupling appears at The measurements and subsequent numerical analysis have
the same magnitude whenever the ear is in place, independent shown that placement of conducting features external to a

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shielding enclosure but near an aperture can introduce an then be experimentally validated and used to identify the
unexpected, low-frequency susceptibility. Placement of the ear responsible resonant effect.
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