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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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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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wire monopole probe modeled to match the measurement
configuration. A 50 Ω port was placed at the base of the
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modeled monopole probe, representing the VNA measurement
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port at the enclosure SMA feed.
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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,
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Without Ear as is the shift in the 400 MHz resonance and appearance of
With Ear
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the 230 MHz response when the ear is added. The primary
differences are that the relative signal levels are higher in the
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wall. The slot is the only coupling between the internal and
Without Ear
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Electric Field Strength (dB V/m)
Ear Shorted at Body shift in the current null, by reducing or enlarging the dimen-
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Finally, the surface currents induced at the 230 MHz reso-
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nance frequency in the dashed trace of Fig. 6 when the ear is
attached are shown in Fig. 8(c). Strong currents are flowing
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around the slot and aperture, as expected, but also the vertical
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corner of the box near the ear. The edge and slot currents join
together to give a continuous current path that appears to act
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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.
feature near and parallel to an exterior edge of an enclo-
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