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Skin Depth Calculator

Choose the conductor material and enter the frequency.
The calculator will return the skin depth information.

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Notes:
*Skin depth is the equivalent thickness of conductor at DC having the same resistance.
*For high permeability materials e.g. Nickel, the skin depth effectively reduces the conductor area and increases losses.
*Avoid Nickel plating microstrip, as the losses will, as a rule of thumb, double.