Reconfigurable plasma antennas

Mohammad pourbagher; Javad nourinia  and Nader pourmahmud

doi:10.17485/ijst/2012/v5i6.18

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Indian Journal of Science and Technology

DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2012/v5i6.18

Year: 2012, Volume: 5, Issue: 6, Pages: 1-5

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Reconfigurable plasma antennas

Mohammad pourbagher¹ , Javad nourinia¹ and Nader pourmahmud²

¹Department of Electrical Engineering,
² Department of Mechanical Engineering, Urima University, [email protected]
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Abstract

This paper reviews recent work and applications of plasma antennas. Plasma antennas use partially or fully ionized gas instead of metal as the conducting medium to create an antenna. The advantages of plasma antennas are that they are highly reconfigurable and can be turned on and off. The radiated wave profile can be calculated by several numerical methods. The disadvantage is that plasma antennas require energy to be ionized. Hence, research to reduce the power required to ionize the gas at various plasma densities is important.
Keywords: Plasma antenna, Reconfigurable