Electrical Fields in Vehicular Cavities During Reverberation Chamber EMC Immunity Test

Abstract

In this paper, we elaborate on EMC immunity tests in reverberation chambers of full-sized vehicles as well as these products' corresponding electromagnetic susceptibility. It is described how vehicles have regions or volumes (i.e., cavities), with sometimes installed hardware as well as software, which potentially is susceptible to electromagnetic interference, and how these cavities during test have properties (deterministic to ergodic) implying frequency-dependent properties of the electrical fields. Number of degrees of freedom for the electric fields is used to explain the behaviour of EMC, from deterministic coherent resonances and all the way to ergodic regions.