ECCOSORB VF-30

Description Frequency Range Key Features Thickness Service Temp Indoor/Outdoor
Conductive vinyl plastic film 1 - 18 GHz Can be softened at high temperatures and bonded to itself, easily cut .030" (.76mm) 150°F (66°C) In/Out

ECCOSORB® VF-30 is a conductive vinyl film that can be used to line the interior of a cavity to lower the Q or to alter the flow of high frequency currents.  Wedges or tapers can be made and applied to the interior of waveguides as terminations. It can be utilized in resistors or as a An electrical device which has a user-adjustable resistance.potentiometer. Geometric shaping of the sheet can produce a desired resistive gradient.  ECCOSORB® VF-30 can be softened at higher temperatures and be bonded to itself by heat sealing.

Other applications include using the material to make free space absorbers of the Maybe the first ever anti-reflective concept RAM (radar absorbent material). The most easy to understand salisbury screen design consists of a ground plane which is the metallic surface that needs to be concealled, a lossless dielectric of a given thickness (a quarter of the wavelength that will be absorbed) and a thin lossy screen.
Salisbury Screen type. The film is spaced away from a metal surface by about ¼ wavelength.  The resultant absorber is narrow-band.  Wide band free space absorbers have been made from ECCOSORB
® VF-30 by draping it over wooden frames to form a hollow cone or pyramid with the tip toward the source of radiation.  Pressing cones or pyramids into the sheet has also been successful.