  Graphite has been one of the promising materials in diverse application
domains owing to its high conductivity, tunability into different structures
and mechanical strength its. The effectiveness of graphite and its derivatives
has been studied for electromagnetic domains as well. Pencil strokes on paper
create a film of graphite composites which is reported to be useful for
fabrication of electronic components. In our study, we extend use of pencil
traces on paper for studying its electromagnetic properties. The pencil traces
on paper is facile method of coating graphite composite films with relatively
lower cost and ease of processing. The interaction of electromagnetic wave with
graphite composites produces in modulation of the incident RF power. The RF
power was observed to get attenuated with pencil coating on paper as compared
to plain paper. The attenuation increased with increasing the signal frequency.
Further, stacking more pencil coated papers onto each other results in
increasing attenuation factor. Additionally, these pencil coated paper roll was
able to attenuate the incoming noise signals in the radio signal reception.
This demonstrates potential ability of pencil coated papers to be used for
small RF power attenuation applications.
