I've completed characterization of the purple prototype boards, and the FR4 material is surprisingly good.
TL Length | TL 1/2 Wave Resonance | Resonance Period |
0.0254 m | 2.847 GHz | 0.3512 ns |
0.0381 m | 1.870 GHz | 0.5347 ns |
0.0508 m | 1.432 GHz | 0.6983 ns |
Performing a regression between the length and resonance period yields a fairly clean result:
This indicates that the phase velocity is 0.1462 m / ns which results in a relative permittivity of 4.202:
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