A Study of the Characteristics of a Deformable Antenna Based on Gas Discharge

• DOI: 10.1109/tap.2017.2772023
• Publication Date: 2017-11-09T21:44:22Z
• Authors: Jiansen Zhao; Xinqiang Chen; Shengzheng Wang; Wei Liu; Baoxian Ji; Yue Liu; Zhen Sun; Tie Xu
• Keywords: Loop antenna

This paper presents an introduction to a deformable plasma antenna excited by alternating current power supply at frequency of 12 kHz. The discharge tube could be transformed into many types shapes, such as monopole, U-shape, loop, helix, or plane, means simple mounting and rotating system. characteristics the were studied for various parameters shapes. Experimental results demonstrate that characteristics, impedance, radiation pattern, gain, polarization, can simply controlled varying Compared with conventional made hard materials, reconfiguration scope is considerably broader. Moreover, shape modified in manner both flexible easily implemented.