A TECHNICAL SEMINAR REPORT

ON
PLASMA ANTENNA
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
In
ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
Submitted by

T.DEVARSHI

12B81A0439

Department of Electronics And Communication Engineering

CVR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

(An autonomous Institution)
(Approved by AICTE &affiliated by JNTU, Hyderabad)

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, HYDERABAD (2012-2016)

2012-2016

Cherabuddi Education Societys

CVR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

(An Autonomous Institution)
ACCREDITED BY NATIONAL BOARD OF ACCREDITATION, AICTE
(Approved by A.I.C.T.E. & Govt. of Andhra Pradesh and Affiliated to
JNTUniversity)

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Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the Technical seminar report entitled PLASMA ANTENNA is
submitted by
T.DEVARSHI

12B81A0439

In partial fulfillment of requirement for the award of Bachelor of Technology degree in

Electronics and Communication Engineering from JNTUH, Kukatpally, Hyderabad
for the academic year 2015-16

CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

ABSTRACT

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LIST OF FIGURES

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LIST OF TABLES

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1. INTRODUCTION

2. ANTENNA TECHNOLOGY

2.1 Antenna

2.2 Plasma

2.3 Plasma Antenna Technology

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2.4 Types of plasma antennas

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2.5 Development Process

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3. INTERACTION OF PLASMA WITH EM WAVES

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3.1 Methods of producing radiations

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4. EXPERIMENTS ON THE INTERACTION OF PLASMA

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AND ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES

4.1 Plasma generating apparatus

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4.2 Selection of electrodes and gases

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4.3 Striation effect

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5. APPLICATIONS

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6. ADVANTAGES AND LIMITATIONS

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7. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE SCOPE

8. BIBILOGRAPHY

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The satisfaction that accompanies the successful completion of any task would be
incomplete without the mention of the people who made it possible and whose encouragement
and guidance has been a source of inspiration throughout the course of the project.
It is great pleasure to convey my profound sense of gratitude to our principal Dr. K.S
NAYANATHARA and Wg.Cmdr.Varghese Thattil, Head of the ECE Department, CVR
college of Engineering for having been kind enough for arranging the necessary facilities for
executing the project in the college.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my guide Mr.S.L Narasimha Reddy,
Associate Professor ,ECE Dept, CVR college of Engineering, whose guidance and valuable
suggestions have been indispensable to bring about the successful completion of my project.
I wish to acknowledge special thanks to Mrs.T.Subha Sri Lakshmi, Assistant professor,
and Mrs.Anitha, Assistant professor, ECE Dept for assessing seminars and giving me valuable
suggestions in my project, inspiration and moral support.
We wish a deep sense of gratitude and heartfelt thanks to management for providing
excellent lab facilities and tools. Finally, I Thank all those whose guidance helped me in this
regard.

Abstract
A plasma antenna represents a completely new technology of antennas that relies on
plasma elements rather than in traditional metallic wires or surfaces. The feasibility of a plasma
antenna is provided by plasma conductivity, that is given by free electrons obtained by gas
ionization with the application of an intense electromagnetic field; the main advantage of plasma
antennas results from the possibility of changing electromagnetically their parameters: this
characteristic provide a plasma antenna with peculiar properties that make it suitable for several
applications (e.g, stealth application, antenna arrays, smart antennas, frequency selective
shields).The pump signal and gas discharge parameters have to be carefully chosen in order to
optimize plasma antenna design and realization, in particular discharge working conditions have
to be defined in order to obtain the desired antenna properties in terms of efficiency, effective
length and so on. To this purpose a self-consistent numerical model of electromagnetic fieldplasma interaction mechanism have been developed : a preliminary one dimensional model was
firstly implemented allowing the numerical approach to be validated, then a cylindrical
configuration enabled a more realistic description of plasma antenna behavior with respect to the
working conditions adopted .At the same time an experimental characterization has been carried
out to propose some measurement set-up and experimental procedures to characterize the pump
and radiated signal networks and investigate how plasma state is affected by them.