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Investigation on the effect of Fe impurity pickups during ball milling and Ni dispersion on the microwave absorption performance of ball milled Fe impurities-Ni/SiC composites

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The development of microwave absorbers to mitigate the problem of electromagnetic pollution has become a necessity in today’s electronic era owing to the rapid growth in the electronic industries covering every sphere of human life from civilian to the defense and medical sectors. The requirement of microwave absorbers having desirable characteristics such as strong absorption, wide absorption bandwidth, thin absorber thickness along with the low cost is still a huge challenge. Thus, the present work focuses on the development of ball milled Fe impurities-Ni/SiC microwave absorbing composites using a very simple and cost-effective ball milling route. The present work investigates the influence of Fe impurity pick-ups from the steel balls during the ball milling operation and Ni concentration on the microwave absorption characteristics of milled Fe impurities-Ni/SiC composites. The ball milled Ni/SiC composites with Fe impurities exhibited a strong microwave absorption response in the Ku band compared to pure and ball milled SiC counterparts. Ball milled Fe impurities-Ni/SiC composites with 3 wt% Ni concentration exhibited superior microwave absorption characteristics. The corresponding value of maximum microwave absorption represented by the minimum reflection loss (RL) value was calculated to be − 17.82 dB at an absorber thickness of 2.4 mm. The concerned sample also exhibited a wide broadband frequency response (corresponding to < − 10 dB) of 5.51 GHz at the same absorber thickness. The improved microwave absorption characteristics for the milled Fe impurities-Ni/SiC composites make it a promising candidate for applications in the Ku band.

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The authors confirm that the data supporting the findings of this study are available within the article represented by the various figures and plots. Also, the dielectric study data can be made available on request from the corresponding author, S. Singh. The dielectric data are not publicly available because of further work on other assignment.

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The author, Samarjit Singh extends his sincere gratitude to IIT Roorkee and Prof. Dharmendra Singh for extending necessary characterization and testing facilities for carrying out this work.

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    Samarjit Singh

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    Sushil Kumar Singh

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Engineering & Technology, Lucknow, India

    Pappu Kumar Harijan & Sunil Kumar Yadav

  4. Department of Applied Mechanics, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India

    Abhishek Kumar

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SS: Performed the experiments, analyzed and interpreted the results. Wrote the manuscript of the submitted paper. SKS: Assisted the first author in the conduction of experiments. SKY, PKH: Provided critical feedback in the completion of this manuscript. AK: Provided the technical and conceptual expertise and guided the experiment as PhD thesis supervisor of the first author. Edited the manuscript of the submitted paper.

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Singh, S., Singh, S.K., Harijan, P.K. et al. Investigation on the effect of Fe impurity pickups during ball milling and Ni dispersion on the microwave absorption performance of ball milled Fe impurities-Ni/SiC composites. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 33, 17828–17841 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-022-08647-2

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