PLASMA ANTENNA TECHNOLOGY

PLASMA ANTENNA.rtf (Size: 90.73 KB / Downloads: 31) INTRODUCTION : WHAT IS PLASMA ? An ordinary matter found by Sir William Crookes a fourth state of matter, now known as plasma. - Plasmas are conductive assemblie s of charged and neutral particles. - Plasmas carry electrical currents and generate magnetic fields. Types of Plasma are:- Warm Plasma Cold Plasma -Cold Plasma is used for antenna applications. 1 PLASMA ANTENNA TECHNOLOGY : Operates up to 90 GHz. - It use ionized gas as counducting material . - The gas is ionized only for the time of transmission or reception. -The design allows for extremely short pulses, important to many forms of digital communication and radars. -Predicted performance:Beam Positions= 16 Gain= 14dB Switching speed= 2 micro sec Low weight and smaller in size 2 UNIQUE FEATURE OF PLASMA ANTENNA : One fundamental distinguishing feature of a plasma antenna is that the gas ionizing process. A second fundamental distinguishing feature

is that after sending a pulse the plasma antenna can be deionized. Selectable Multi beam. 3 SelectaBeam : Key Features of Slectabeam:Based on Beam forming tecnology. Avoid the need of alignment and realignment of fixed point to point links. Same Benifites as that of Phased array antenna. 4 ReflectaBeam : Key Features of Reflectabeam:Operates upto Freqencies of 90Ghz Design to provide high speed selection At High Fequencies Applications it also include radar sensors and monitering systems Advantages of Selectabeam and Reflectabeam : High directional gain: concentrates RF power to increase link budget, dramatically enhancing network coverage and capacity. Low sidelobes reduce interference, enabling improved frequency reuse and substantially higher utilization. Wide bandwidth supports simultaneous multi-band or UWB operation from a single compact antenna. TRADITIONAL ANTENNA VS PLASMA ANTENNA : Unlike simple directional antennas, Plasma Antennas selecta-beam avoiding the need for manual or mechanical alignment and realignment of fixed point-to-point communication links. -Plasma

Antennas selectable-beam antennas provide similar advantages to phased array antennas but at a fraction of the cost, together with much wider bandwidth of operation. VS 9 APPLICATIONS : Network Equipment Providers and Systems Integrators Network Operators Public Safety Networks Sensing Defense, Space and Homeland Security. 10 Microwave Communication :
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