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The material characterization represents a fundamental step for exploiting the material as a sensing element within a radio frequency device. Indeed, the proposed method is capable of retrieving the surface impedance of the material while it is being stretched, thus deriving a correspondent calibration curve. The characterization approach is based on a contactless measurement of the scattering parameters using waveguides. By exploiting the measured scattering parameters, the variation in the surface impedance as a function of both frequency and strain is recovered through an analytical inversion procedure. 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