If the conductor thickness is insufficient to handle the skin depth, additional impedance is realized, along with loss of performance (lossy circuit).

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Carl, if the conductor thickness is less than the skin depth, would that mean the magnitude of the evanescent wave electric field would be great enough to allow propagation outside the shield?  Sorry to say, my understanding of electromagnetic field theory is a lot less than what I think it should be, but I am curious.

Regarding aluminum and soldering, I knew a guy who had a roll of 'aluminum solder' on his desk although I never saw him use it.  The wire was several millimeters in diameters, so may not have been for electronic purposes.

On the subject Drew brought up of mu-metal, I inherited a microwave spectrometer long ago which had a klystron housed in the stuff. The fellow who bequeathed it to me said the metal was great for shielding, but its desirable properties were degraded by mechanical forming.

Nice to see good activity on TechNet.  (I may qualify as one of the old-timers, having joined when it first appeared back in 1994 or 1995.)  Louis Hart

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My next attempt will be to try a metalized Mylar, hoping that the thin conductor (much thinner than the skin effect depth) will be good enough for the capacitive shielding, but too thin for significant eddy current flow from the magnetic field.  If that work, I will be left with the "simple" matter of connecting to the shield.  How do you solder a wire to a party balloon?

Thanks,
Carl



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