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# IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

## Issue 99

Early Access articles are new content made available in advance of the final electronic or print versions and result from IEEE's Preprint or Rapid Post processes. Preprint articles are peer-reviewed but not fully edited. Rapid Post articles are peer-reviewed and edited but not paginated. Both these types of Early Access articles are fully citable from the moment they appear in IEEE Xplore.

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• ### An Improved Circuital Method for the Prediction of Shielding Effectiveness of an Enclosure With Apertures Excited by a Plane Wave

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 8
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An efficient circuital model is developed to predict the shielding effectiveness of an enclosure with an aperture array excited by a plane wave. First of all, the impedance of the aperture array is expressed as a function of the spacing between apertures, the radius of apertures, the incident angle, and the thickness of the perforated plate. Then, a multiple modes equivalent circuit method is prop... View full abstract»

• ### Evaluating Field Interactions Between Multiple Wires and the Nearby Surface Enabled by a Generalized MTL Approach

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 10
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Interactions between a cable harness containing multiple wires and the nearby metal surface can be evaluated by full-wave methods. Though these methods can calculate the interactions with great accuracy, they have long simulation times and large memory requirements when dealing with complex wire structures. The multiple scattering (MS) approach by treating the cable harness and the surface separat... View full abstract»

• ### Loop-to-Loop Pulsed Electromagnetic Signal Transfer Across a Thin Metal Screen With Drude-Type Dispersive Behavior

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 5
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A full analytic time-domain analysis is presented for a canonical problem of electromagnetic interference related to the operation of integrated-circuit devices at optical frequencies, where metal screens and substrates can no longer be characterized as perfect electrical conductors, but the plasmonic behavior of conduction electrons in the metal has to be taken into account. View full abstract»

• ### Differential Evolutionary Multiple-Objective Sequential Optimization of a Power Delivery Network

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 7
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The aim of this contribution is to develop a procedure able to identify the optimal parameters for the design of a power delivery network of complex high-speed digital systems. A multiple-objective optimization procedure, based on the differential evolutionary algorithm, is proposed and applied to a power delivery network. Results are discussed in terms of performances of the algorithm and in term... View full abstract»

• ### Study on SAR Distribution of Human Body on the Vehicle Platform Using a Modified FDTD Method

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 9
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This paper is devoted to characterizing the specific absorption rate (SAR) distribution of a human body model in a vehicle-based shelter in the presence of high-power intentional electromagnetic pulse (IEMP) radiation using a modified finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The proposed method combines the FDTD(2, 4) method along with dielectric conformal techniques, where the updating equati... View full abstract»

• ### A Novel Electromagnetic Bandgap Power Plane Etched With Multiring CSRRs for Suppressing Simultaneous Switching Noise

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 5
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A novel electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) power plane etched with multiring complementary split ring resonators (CSRRs) is proposed for effectively suppressing simultaneous switching noise. Its equivalent circuit model is derived for predicting its bandwidth numerically. The measured insertion losses, i.e., S$_{21}$-parameters of the two fabricated samples agree well with... View full abstract»

• ### Modeling and Measurement of Ground Bounce Induced by High-Speed Output Buffer With On-Chip Low-Dropout (LDO) Regulator

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 4
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This study proposes a model of ground bounce induced by a high-speed output buffer with on-chip low-dropout (LDO) regulator. When the output buffer operates with a high-speed clock, high output impedance of the pass transistor and low impedance of the on-chip decoupling capacitor at load enable the ground bounce calculation by only using the self-impedance of the off-chip ground network and switch... View full abstract»

• ### A Normalization Method of Delimiting the Electromagnetic Hazard Region of a Wireless Power Transfer System

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 11
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To avoid the electromagnetic hazard (EMH) that exists in wireless power transfer (WPT) systems and ensure human safety, this paper proposes a normalization method of delimiting the EMH region (EMHR) of WPT systems. The analytic expression of electromagnetic field intensity near a WPT system is deduced and verified. It is determined that the electromagnetic field generated by an electrified coil is... View full abstract»

• ### Estimation of Energy Stress of Surge Arresters Considering the High-Frequency Behavior of Grounding Systems

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 9
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This paper presents a probabilistic evaluation of energy absorption capability of transmission line surge arresters (SAs), based on Monte-Carlo method. In the presented approach, a wideband model of tower-footing grounding system is adopted taking to account both constant and frequency-dependent soil electrical parameters. Furthermore, the effect of multistroke lightning flashes on the energy stre... View full abstract»

• ### Simulation of Bulk Current Injection Test for Automotive Components Using Electromagnetic Analysis

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 9
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This paper provides a generalized technique for predicting bulk current injection (BCI) test results. The injected RF disturbance that reaches an integrated circuit (IC) is calculated using electromagnetic (EM) analysis. A three-dimensional (3-D) model of the equipment under test (EUT) can provide the terminal voltages of an IC whose references are the ground terminal of the IC, not the BCI test s... View full abstract»

• ### Reproducing Field-to-Wire Coupling Effects in Twisted-Wire Pairs by Crosstalk

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 10
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This paper proposes an alternative test procedure for testing the radiated immunity of units and subsystems interconnected through unshielded twisted-wire pairs (TWPs). The procedure makes use of an additional wire placed in close proximity and parallel to the TWP axis to generate the interference, which is then transferred to the TWP under test through crosstalk coupling. Equivalence with field-t... View full abstract»

• ### Fast Algorithm for Minimizing the Number of decap in Power Distribution Networks

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 8
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In this paper, fast capacitor assignment algorithms capable of finding a decoupling solution scheme with a minimum number of components that meets a predefined target impedance with a semi-arbitrary shape within a few seconds to an hour for a given power distribution network (PDN) are proposed. The proposed algorithms also provide identification of shadowed decap ports in a PDN based on an inducta... View full abstract»

• ### Best Practices in Measuring the Quality Factor of a Reverberation Chamber

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 8
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Measurement of the quality factor of a reverberation chamber has been examined using numerical simulation and experimental measurements. The numerical simulations demonstrate that common frequency-domain and time-domain approaches yield the same measured quality factors, provided that the measurement bandwidths of each approach are equal and the frequency-domain measurements are accurately compens... View full abstract»

• ### Study of High-Altitude Nuclear EMP by Using an Integral Equation Method

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 9
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In previous studies, high-frequency approximation (HFA) and outgoing wave methods (OWM) were used in calculating the high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP) generated by the high-altitude nuclear explosion. Maxwell's equations were reduced to ordinary differential equations. Here, an integral equation method (IEM) based on the HFA is employed to solve Maxwell's equations in the HE... View full abstract»

• ### Reduction of Electromagnetic Noise Coupling to Antennas in Metal-Framed Smartphones Using Ferrite Sheets and Multi-Via EBG Structures

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 8
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Recent smartphones increasingly employ a metal frame for a sophisticated design. However, the metal frame becomes a good coupling path for electromagnetic (EM) noise within smartphones and increases noise coupling to radio-frequency antennas located at the top and bottom sides of the smartphones. This paper proposes two novel metal frame structures with ferrite absorbing sheets or electromagnetic ... View full abstract»

• ### A New Method for Calibrating Impedance of an Artificial Mains Network With a Vector Network Analyzer

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 7
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In this paper, an impedance calibration method of an artificial mains network with a vector network analyzer is proposed for determining its conformity to the International Special Committee on Radio Interference (CISPR) 16-1-2 standard. In this method, five transfer standards modeled on CISPR 16-1-2 regulated impedance are used. Traceability to the International System of Units is established usi... View full abstract»

• ### Optimized Parallel Feeder for Achieving Low Magnetic Fields in an Overhead-Feeder-Type DC Rail System

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 6
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The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the use of an optimized parallel feeding system to achieve low magnetic field in the overhead-feeder-type dc rail system. Traction conductors for electrified railways often produce very high electromagnetic fields especially at locations close to the railway, consequently posing an electromagnetic interference threat to any sensitive neighboring systems.... View full abstract»

• ### Fast Time-Domain Analysis of a Metallic Enclosure With Arbitrary-Shaped Apertures by Marching-on-in-Degree

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 9
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In this paper, an efficient time-domain technique is introduced for transient analysis of a rectangular metallic enclosure with arbitrary-shaped apertures. The surface equivalent theorem is applied to divide the problem into two separated regions. Then, assuming the magnetic current density on the apertures surface as the unknown of the problem, the governing mixed potential integral equation (MPI... View full abstract»

• ### Thin Hybrid Metamaterial Slab With Negative and Zero Permeability for High Efficiency and Low Electromagnetic Field in Wireless Power Transfer Systems

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 9
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Current wireless power transfer (WPT) systems have limited charging distance and high induced electromagnetic field (EMF) leakage. Thus, we first proposed a thin printed circuit board (PCB) type hybrid metamaterial slab (HMS) combining two kinds of metamaterial cell structures. The metamaterial cells in the center area of the HMS have zero relative permeability and straighten the magnetic field di... View full abstract»

• ### Time-Domain Modeling of Grounding Systems’ Impulse Response Incorporating Nonlinear and Frequency-Dependent Aspects

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 10
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At lightning discharge, the grounding systems’ transient behavior is influenced by time-dependent nonlinear behavior and frequency-dependent effects. These effects are related to complex phenomena arising from the soil ionization surrounding the conductors at high current and to the fast risetime of the impulse current, respectively. Most of the performed investigations were either focused ... View full abstract»

• ### A Passive Equalizer Optimization Method Based on Time-Domain Inter-Symbol Interference (ISI) Cancellation Technique

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 4
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In this letter, a channel loss equalization method based on a time-domain inter-symbol interference (ISI) cancellation technique for passive interconnects is proposed. The proposed method can be applied to conventional passive equalizer designs that intentionally suppress the low-frequency and dc components of passive channel responses to compensate for the frequency-dependent losses. An R–... View full abstract»

• ### Wigner-Function-Based Propagation of Stochastic Field Emissions From Planar Electromagnetic Sources

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 9
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Modeling the electromagnetic radiation from modern digital systems—acting effectively as extended stochastic sources as part of a complex architecture—is a challenging task. We follow an approach here based on measuring and propagating field-field autocorrelation functions (ACFs) after suitable averaging. From the modeling side, we use the Wigner transform of the ACFs to describe ran... View full abstract»

• ### A 2.5-D Angularly Stable Frequency Selective Surface Using Via-Based Structure for 5G EMI Shielding

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 8
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A novel broadband bandpass frequency-selective surface (FSS) designed for fifth generation (5G) EMI shielding is proposed in this paper. This new design employs the vertical vias into the 2-D periodic arrays, and such a single 2.5-D periodic layer of via-based structure is demonstrated to produce a highly stable angular response up to 60° for both TE and TM polarizations. By cascading two l... View full abstract»

• ### Computational Artifacts of the In Situ Electric Field in Anatomical Models Exposed to Low-Frequency Magnetic Field

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 9
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An in situ (internal) electric field is used as a dosimetric quantity for human protection from low-frequency electromagnetic fields (lower than 5 MHz) under international safety standard/guidelines. The IEEE standard uses a homogenous elliptical cross section to derive external field strength corresponding to an in situ field strength, while the International Committee on Non-Ionizing Radi... View full abstract»

• ### Multiple Objectives Optimization for an EBG Common Mode Filter by Using an Artificial Neural Network

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 6
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One of the recent frontiers of the multiple objectives optimization strategies is the introduction of an artificial neural network in place of a more time-consuming numerical tool or approach to compute the cost functions. This paper describes the development of a multiple objectives optimization strategy for an electromagnetic bandgap common mode filter by using an artificial neural network. The ... View full abstract»

## Aims & Scope

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility publishes original and significant contributions related to all disciplines of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and relevant methods to predict, assess and prevent electromagnetic interference (EMI) and increase device/product immunity.

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## Meet Our Editors

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Ing. Antonio Orlandi
University of L'Aquila
Email: antonio.orlandi@univaq.it