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Plasma Antennas
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This book is dedicated to Nadine J. Morancy and Professor Igor Alexeff
Second Edition Dedication
This book is dedicated to Captain Navy(Ret) Chuck Nash, Major General USAF
(Ret) Tommy F. Crawford, retired Major General USAF (Ret) John Hawley, and
Colonel USAF (Ret) Mo Blackmore, Nadine Morancy, Kevin Corrigan, Jessie
Frary, Kevin Shoemaker, Professor Mohamed Himdi, Dr. Davide Melazzi,
Dr Paola De Carlo, Dr Daniele Pavarin, Dr Vito Lancellotti, Dr. Sebastian
Aussenhofer, Professor Andrew G. Webb, Dr. Larry Barnett, Natali Zotova,
Fred Dyer, Peter Witts, Bruce Haykal, Woody Norris, Jim Barnes, Jerry Polis,
Ryan Stone, Rich Owen, Professor Fatemeh Sadeghikia, Mahsa Valipour, Professor
Ranjeesh Kumar, Dr Jim Raynolds, Dr. Vincent Laquerbe, Dr. Romain Pascaud,
Dr. Osamu Sakai, Dr. Kunihide Tachibana, Dr Shu Nishioka, Dr Teruki Naito,
Dr Shingo Yamaura, Dr Kazuo Yamamoto, Dr Tai Tanaka, Dr Hidetoshi Chiba,
Dr Hayato Ogino, Dr Kazuhiro Takahagi, Dr Shinya Kitagawa, Dr Daiki
Taniguchi, Dr Richard Nadolink, Peter Michalos, Tom Kulaga, Kevin Corrigan,
Barry Ashby, and Sidney Kilgore.
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Contents
Foreword xxi
Foreword to the Second Edition xxiii
Preface xxv
Preface to the Second Edition xxix
Acknowledgments xxxiii
Acknowledgments to the Second Edition xxxv
1 Introduction 1
References 8
2 Plasma Physics for Plasma Antennas 13
2.1 Mathematical Models of Plasma Physics 13
2.2 Man-Made Plasmas and Some Applications 14
2.3 Basic Physics of Reflection and Transmission
from a Plasma Slab Barrier 15
2.4 Experiments of Scattering Off of a
Plasma Cylinder 17
2.5 Governing Plasma Fluid Equations for
Applications to Plasma Antennas 18
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viii Plasma Antennas
2.6 Incident Signal on a Cylindrical Plasma 21
2.7 Fourier Expansion of the Plasma
Antenna Current Density 22
2.8 Plasma Antenna Poynting Vector 22
2.9 Some Finite Element Solution Techniques
for Plasma Antennas 25
2.9.1 Barrier Penetration 28
2.9.2 Calculation of Scaling Function 28
References 30
3 Fundamental Plasma Antenna Theory 31
3.1 Net Radiated Power from a Center-Fed
Dipole Plasma Antenna 31
3.2 Reconfigurable Impedance of a Plasma
Antenna 33
3.3 Thermal Noise in Plasma Antennas 34
References 36
4 Building a Basic Plasma Antenna 37
4.1 Introduction 37
4.2 Electrical Safety Warning 37
4.3 Building a Basic Plasma Antenna: Design I 38
4.4 Building a Basic Plasma Antenna: Design II 41
4.5 Materials 42
4.6 Building a Basic Plasma Antenna: Design III 44
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Contents ix
5 Plasma Antenna Nesting, Stacking Plasma
Antenna Arrays, and Reduction of Cosite
Interference 45
5.1 Introduction 45
5.2 Physics of Reflection and Transmission of
Electromagnetic Waves Through Plasma 45
5.3 Nested Plasma Antenna Concept 48
5.3.1 Example of Nested Plasma Antennas 48
5.3.2 Schematic Conceptual Design of Stacked
Plasma Antenna Arrays 48
5.4 Cosite Interference Reduction Using Plasma
Antennas 49
5.5 Plasma Antenna Nesting Experiments 50
References 51
6 Plasma Antenna Windowing: Foundation
of the Smart Plasma Antenna Design 53
6.1 Introduction 53
6.2 The Smart Plasma Antenna Design:
The Windowing Concept 53
6.2.1 Multiband Plasma Antennas Concept 56
6.2.2 Multiband and Multilobe or Both Plasma
Antennas Concept 56
6.3 Theoretical Analysis with Numerical
Results of Plasma Windows 57
6.3.1 Geometric Construction 59
6.3.2 Electromagnetic Boundary Value Problem 63
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