Pasternack Blog

It has been understood for nearly a century that the conductivity of conductive metals changes as a function of frequency. Though this is the case the phenomenon behind frequency dependent conductivity is not as well understood by man. It was observed early on that the attenuation and resistive losses of metallic transmission lines and traces ..

The skin effect and skin depth is a rarely discussed topic, considering as it is an essential phenomenon to be aware of when working with any conductor, or semiconductor, at RF frequencies, or really anything other than DC. Essentially, the skin effect is the term to describe the way current is distributed in a conductor ..