INTRODUCTION

WHAT IS PLASMA ?
-An ordinary matter found by Sir William Crookes
a fourth state of matter, now known as plasma.
- Plasmas are conductive assemblies 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.

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 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

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- Low weight and smaller in size
 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.

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 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.

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 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 re-use and substantially higher utilization.

 Wide bandwidth supports simultaneous multi-band or UWB

operation from a single compact antenna.
 High speed beam switching enables spatial time division
multiplexing to boost spectral efficiency and throughput.

 Compact and lightweight form factor reduces site and mast

costs, simplifies installation and minimizes environmental
impact.

 Maintenance free - auto-aligning with no moving parts and

requires no calibration, minimizing total cost.
 PSiAn
• Plasma antenna up coming Technology is PSiAn
Launched in 2010
• Based on silicon integrated circuits technology
• Its product cost does not increase with frequency
• Frequncy range -1 to 300GHz

Advantages:-
• Wide band Multimedia
• Wireless local networks
• Medical etc
 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.

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 APPLICATIONS
 Network Equipment Providers and Systems Integrators
 Network Operators
 Public Safety Networks
 Sensing
 Defense, Space and Homeland Security.

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 Microwave Communication
Plasma Antenna Provide:-

-Ease for realignment of long range directional antennas.

-Low Cost  for the network owner.

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 WiFi-WiMAX Local Access Point
Plasma Antennas Provides:-
-Selectable multi-beam
-Directional beamforming at another frequency
-Powerful dual-band combination provides an efficient and compact
‘single-antenna’ solution for local WiFi

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 ADVANTAGES

-High gain
-Low interference
-Compact and lightweight
-Widebandwidth
-Maintenance free
-Perfect Reflector

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