Do you have any measurements that support the use of Litz wire at our frequency? I don't think I can add much more, other than below that quarter wave resonance the input will appear inductive and above it will appear capacitive.
Of course, I have many measurements for you. For example, the first plot (3rd and 4th, too) is of two unconnected but identical 10mm H-field sensing loops placed 8mm apart (coaxial & parallel). See Fig.1 Notice that together with the VNA's internal impedance of 50Ω they form a high-pass filter. Also note, that their voltage phase shift is close to 90º. The second plot is of two pancake coils connected in parallel and placed 16mm apart (coaxial & parallel). See Fig.2 From it, you can deduce how much total current flows into these coils (note that this current also includes any displacement currents!) I don't know how proficient you are in reading VNA plots but the vertical scale for the green │S21│measurement of the pancake coils is 100mU per division (linear scale) and the 1 (or 1000mU) is at the very top of the plot and 0 is at the very bottom of the plot. The labels of the vertical axis do not show this because the │S21│ trace does not have focus. The blue S21 Phase plot has the focus (this is indicated by the blue S21 rectangle in the upper-left corner of the plot area). It is important to keep in mind that the │S21│measurement is a dimensionless ratio of two voltage amplitudes: the incident signal and the signal received after being transmitted through the coils. 1 means that the full voltage amplitude is transmitted through and 0 means that nothing is transmitted through. The 100mU means that 10% is transmitted through, 200mU means 20% ...etc. Of course, anything that is not transmitted through is either reflected back to the source or dissipated as heat/ultrasonics/far-field EM radiation.
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