等离子体天线色散关系和辐射场数值计算

研究了电磁波沿轴向对称柱形等离子体天线传播的特性、色散关系及辐射方向图、增益等天线参数.通过对腔体材料介电系数、内外半径、等离子体密度、碰撞频率等参数的分析，结果表明要减小波沿等离子体天线传播的衰减，应当增加等离子体密度，减小碰撞频率，增加等离子体半径，减小腔体厚度，采用介电系数较小的材料.计算了在不同参数条件下，等离子体天线的辐射方向图、增益的变化，这些结果对于等离子体天线的设计很有参考价值. 关键词： 等离子体天线 色散关系 增益 辐射方向图     

等离子体天线表面电流分布与辐射特性研究

建立了表面波驱动等离子体天线装置,提出了一种等离子体天线表面电流指数分布模型,并利用该表面电流分布模型计算了天线的辐射方向图.研究结果表明,等离子体密度随轴向距离的增大呈指数衰减趋势.正常工作状态下表面波波矢虚部随等离子体密度的增大而下降,遵循与等离子体密度类似的指数衰减规律,但其实部则基本保持不变.等离子体天线的表面电流呈振幅指数衰减行波模式.利用该表面电流分布模型计算得到的辐射方向图呈现典型的8字形分布,与实验测量结果良好符合.当射频功率减小,等离子体天线辐射方向图宽化.     

等离子体天线输入阻抗测量及分析

通过矢量网络分析仪测量了不同激励功率条件下柱形等离子体天线系统的输入阻抗随频率的变化关系，实验结果表明柱形等离子体天线输入阻抗具有明显的谐振特性.结合放电管的等效电路模型与柱形等离子体天线输入电流特性，定性分析了等离子体天线输入阻抗变化与等离子体参数之间的关系.此种测量方法有助于等离子体天线动态重构特性的研究和实现快速阻抗匹配. 关键词： 等离子体天线 输入阻抗 表面波     

基于等离子体的定向天线阵理论与实验研究

当前国内学者对等离子体天线的研究主要集中于柱状天线和反射面天线, 而在国外已有学者以等离子体阵列结构设计了功能多样的智能天线系统. 为了较系统地了解这一新的设计思路, 基于等离子体散射理论对中心单元激励的圆形定向天线阵进行了理论和实验研究. 设计了一个16元等离子体无源振子的圆形天线阵, 实现了天线电磁波单波束和多波束的定向辐射. 通过理论计算和分析, 阐述了天线电磁波单波束和多波束辐射的原理. 通过建立实验系统, 测试了圆形天线阵的定向辐射特性. 实验结果和理论值接近, 说明该等离子体圆形天线阵可以实现天线电磁波的定向辐射和多波束辐射. 另外, 该天线阵还具有快速切换辐射方向、参数快速重构、雷达隐身性良好的优点. 关键词： 等离子体 定向天线阵 单波束 多波束     

单源单极等离子体天线辐射特性实验研究

为了对等离子体天线进行更深入的研究,必须结合实验获得其真实辐射特性,为此搭建了天线辐射特性测量平台,对单源单极等离子体天线的辐射特性进行了详细的实验研究。通过测量辐射远场区接收天线感应电压数据,得出了天线的辐射方向图、主旁瓣宽度和方向系数;通过与金属天线的辐射场最大值对比,得出了天线的辐射效率;通过测量输入功率和反射功率得出了天线的输入阻抗。此项工作弥补了在等离子体天线研究中实验研究不足的问题。     

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提出了一种用于高功率微波武器的等离子体通道天线(PCA),计算了该天线的辐射方向图。推导出了一般性天线的辐射方向函数;建立了PCA的近似电磁模型;给出了圆坐标系下PCA和周围空气中的电磁场,利用边界条件得出了PCA的色散方程,求出PCA的表面波波矢。重点讨论了PCA的辐射场随等离子体密度、天线长度、半径的变化,证实了PCA方向图的可控性。     

柱形单极等离子体天线模型的多物理场研究（英文）

基于柱形单极表面波的等离子体天线结构的多物理场情况考虑了天线内部粒子的反应和运动等因素,通过ComsolMultiphysics软件,模拟感应耦合场、粒子运动场等,得到了天线内部的粒子分布、电子能量分布等以及等离子体天线的相关参数,同时分析各物理场之间的关系对等离子体天线的影响,发现感应耦合等离子体场在天线工作中起主要作用,有助于等离子体天线的参数重构控制.     

Compton散射对激光等离子体通道天线特性的影响

应用多光子非线性Compton散射模型和数值计算方法,研究了激光等离子体通道天线传播和辐射特性,结果表明:随通道周围介质损耗和传输模式阶数的增大,传输模式THnm衰减常数明显增大.这是因散射使通道内外电场和磁场增强,粒子间碰撞频率增大,电场使更多分子电离而吸收更多能量的缘故.随模式阶数增大,电性有耗介质使相移常数明显减小.这是因散射使高阶模式可能存在被耦合电场俘获的缘故.等离子体耦合频率为0.7附近,衰减常数随频率增大而剧烈增大.这是因散射使介质分子发生二、三阶电离,更多电子被耦合电场急剧加速的缘故.随天线长度增加,天线辐射方向图主瓣和副瓣数量、宽度和最大辐射方向发生明显变化.这是因散射使天线频率增大,辐射波长变短,粒子电离几率增大,辐射波能量和频率成分增大的缘故.     

等离子体通道天线的辐射场计算

提出了一种用于高功率微波武器的等离子体通道天线(PCA),计算了该天线的辐射方向图。推导出了一般性天线的辐射方向函数;建立了PCA的近似电磁模型;给出了圆坐标系下PCA和周围空气中的电磁场,利用边界条件得出了PCA的色散方程,求出PCA的表面波波矢。重点讨论了PCA的辐射场随等离子体密度、天线长度、半径的变化,证实了PCA方向图的可控性。     

带直角反射器的太赫兹等离子体-金属混合天线

为了满足可工作于太赫兹频段以及较好的方向性和高增益的需求，在等离子体天线的基础上提出了新型等离子体-金属混合八木天线，在其中将反射振子替换为夹直角反射板。根据等离子体天线及八木天线设计理论，设计了该天线的结构并初步确定了其结构参数。通过电磁仿真研究了不同天线-顶点间距情况下天线的回波损耗、增益、电压驻波比和辐射方向图，最终实现了结构参数优化。与不带反射板的天线的对比结果表明，该结构具有更高的增益与更优的前后比。     

Characterization of the radiation from single-walled zig-zag carbon nanotubes at terahertz range

This paper investigates the radiation characteristics of metal single-walled zig-zag carbon nanotubes as a dipole antenna at terahertz wave range.The current distribution,input impedance and mutual impedance are calculated for various geometrical parameters of vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes.The numerical results demonstrate the properties of the antenna depending strongly on the geometrical parameters such as the radius,the lengths of carbon nantobues,and the spacing between nanotubes.It is found that the zig-zag carbon nanotubes exhibit very high input impedance and the mutual impedances for antenna array applications.These unique high impedance properties are different from the conventional metal thin wire antenna.The far-field patterns and gain of antenna array are also calculated.The maximum gain of array of 100-element array is up to 20.0 dB,which is larger than the gain of 0.598 dB of single dipole antenna at distance d=0.5λ.     

Theoretical study of 2 X 2 element planar array of equilateral triangular patch microstrip antenna in plasma medium

The radiation properties of 2 X 2 element planar array of equilateral triangular patch microstrip antenna in plasma medium are studied. The array factor and far-zone EM-mode and P-mode radiation fields of the array geometry are derived using vector wave function techniques and pattern multiplication approaches. The total field patterns and various characteristics of pattern such as half power beam width (HPBW), first null beam width (FNBW) and direction of maximum radiation are computed for two different values of progressive phase excitation difference between the elements. The results of this array geometry are obtained both in plasma medium and in free space and compared with those of single element equilateral triangular patch microstrip antenna.     

Change of radiation pattern in a plasma monopole antenna

Abstract

In the present work, we have numerically solved the dispersion equation of the surface wave propagating on a uniform collisional plasma column. The electric field and surface current distributions have been computed in different situations. We have investigated the effect of plasma frequency variation on the spatial distribution of the surface current. Results show that varying the electron density of the plasma column enables the plasma column to work as a plasma monopole antenna with a fixed geometrical structure and excited frequency which is able to create different radiation patterns. Our numerical analysis also shows that a little change in the radius of the plasma column has a strong influence on the current distribution at the excited frequency in RF region. This effect can be ignored in the usual (metallic) antenna while it is very important in designing of the plasma monopole antenna.     

Theoretical study of two-element array of equilateral triangular patch microstrip antenna on ferrite substrate

The radiation characteristics of a two-element array of equilateral triangular patch microstrip antenna on a ferrite substrate are studied theoretically by considering the presence of bias magnetic field in the direction of propagation of electromagnetic waves. It is found that the natural modes of propagation in the direction of magnetic field are left- and right-circularly polarized waves and these modes have different propagation constants. In loss-less isotropic warm plasma, this array antenna geometry excites both electromagnetic (EM) and electroacoustic plasma (P) waves in addition to a nonradiating surface wave. In the absence of an external magnetic field, the EM- and P-waves can be decoupled into two independent modes, the electroacoustic mode is longitudinal while the electromagnetic mode is transverse. The far-zone EM-mode and P-mode radiation fields are derived using vector wave function techniques and pattern multiplication approaches. The results are obtained in both plasma medium and free space. Some important antenna parameters such as radiation conductance, directivity and quality factor are plotted for different values of plasma-to-source frequency.     

Radiation of ion acoustic waves in a dispersive positiveion-negative ion plasma

Experimental results that illustrate some properties of the radiation of a longitudinal ion acoustic wave launched from a solid metal disk antenna inserted in a dispersive positive-ion-negative-ion plasma are presented. The negative ions replace the free electrons in the plasma and increase the electron Debye length, hence increasing the dispersion of the plasma. It is observed that the radiation of waves in a dispersive media is significantly more complicated than in a nondispersive media. It is not possible to draw one universal radiation pattern for the radiation of the waves in this case, since so many frequency components are present in the wave and they change as the wave evolves     

Numerical Simulation of Plasma Antenna with FDTD Method

We adopt cylindrical-coordinate FDTD algorithm to simulate and analyse a 0.4-m-long column configuration plasma antenna. FDTD method is useful for solving electromagnetic problems, especially when wave characteristics and plasma properties are self-consistently related to each other. Focus on the frequency from 75 MHz to 400 MHz, the input impedance and radiation efficiency of plasma antennas are computed. Numerical results show that, different from copper antenna, the chaxacteristics of plasma antenna vary simultaneously with plasma frequency and collision frequency. The property can be used to construct dynamically reconfigurable antenna. The investigation is meaningful and instructional for the optimization of plasma antenna design.