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Losses due to the inhomogeneous sheath surrounding an antenna in a plasma
Author(s) -
MeyerVernet N.,
Meyer P.,
Perche C.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
radio science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1944-799X
pISSN - 0048-6604
DOI - 10.1029/rs013i001p00069
Subject(s) - plasma , debye sheath , antenna (radio) , isotropy , physics , optics , telecommunications , computer science , quantum mechanics
It is shown that, by taking into account the inhomogeneous sheath surrounding an antenna in a warm isotropic plasma, the HF input resistance may be increased by several orders of magnitude, for frequencies below the plasma frequency. This may serve to explain the “anomalous” high resistances observed in previous experiments.