The Dielectric Kit for Vials (DKV) is a new device designed to measure the complex permittivity of a wide range of liquid, granular or powdered materials around the ISM microwave frequency of 2.45 GHz.

DKV is a standalone equipment including all necessary components to perform automatically the generation, control and analysis of microwave signals, accurate calculation of dielectric properties and display of results. Everything in less than 5 seconds!!

Microwaves are emerging as an innovative, cost-effective, and efficient technology in various technological and scientific fields as chemistry, pharmacy, material science, food, agriculture, etc. Consequently, there is an increasing demand for accurate dielectric measurements of materials, to investigate new effective and efficient ways to apply microwave processing to their materials and reactions. Dielectric properties, particularly the loss tangent (imaginary part of the complex permittivity), determine the ability of materials to absorb microwave energy and convert it into heat. DKV is oriented to researchers or specialist that are interested in fast, reliable and traceable data of dielectric properties of materials, and they are not experienced with the use of sophisticated network analysers and microwave measurements.