A physical model of radiated enhancement of plasma-surrounded antenna

作者:Gao Xiaotian*; Wang Chunsheng; Jiang Binhao; Zhang Zhonglin
来源:Physics of Plasmas, 2014, 21(9): 093301.
DOI:10.1063/1.4895485

摘要

A phenomenon that the radiated power may be enhanced when an antenna is surrounded by a finite plasma shell has been found in numerical and experimental studies. In this paper, a physical model was built to express the mechanism of the radiated enhancement. In this model, the plasma shell is treated as a parallel connection of a capacitance and a conductance whose parameters change with the system parameters (plasma density, collision frequency, and antenna frequency). So, the radiated enhancement can be explained by the resonance between the plasma shell and the infinite free space. Furthermore, the effects of system parameters on the radiated power are given and effects corresponding to mechanisms are performed based on the physical model.