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Surfaguide, plasma ignition, plasma antennas,
antenna efficiency, plasma conductivity.
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I.
INTRODUCTION
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internal face of the glass tube, at the tube centre. First of all a
numerical investigation was performed for the field intensity
with hole diameter D and fixed h, LI and L2 and, as expected,
this showed that the narrower D is, the more intense the field
is; therefore, D is chosen as small as possible to allow the tube
to be inserted. The behavior of the field as a function of h for
fixed D, LI and L2 (Table I) is more interesting: a reduction in
the guide height increases the field inside the tube, but beyond
the optimal value a further reduction does not improve the
field strength in the tube.
D
h
"'======'J
1.01
Fig. 1.
TABLE I
Lall..,
L.
mm.
(mm]
LI
=1
FOR FIXED
hlh
lEI
lEI
Ls
(mm]
guide
[VIm]
lEI
tube
wall
[VIm11
tube
rntre.1
VIm
21,6
112
66
1320
1340
1310
13,5
5116
68
1630
1470
1300
VI.
10,8
114
70
1720
1500
1240
8,1
3116
72
1970
1390
1080
5,4
118
75
2150
1230
840
2629
1889
TABLE II
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region with the glass tube: the simulated electric field is normalized
LI
FOR FIXED
lEI
lEI
Ls
[mm]
(mm]
guide
[V/ml
tube
centre
60
91
1640
1430
1210
70
79
1680
1480
1260
(VIm]
tube
lEI
LI
wall
rV/ml
80
68
1720
1500
1270
90
58
1640
1450
1240
100
48
1650
1430
1190
to 1 W of incident power.
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plasma is ignited just for a certain height, then the coil has
been moved along the column to appreciate how plasma state
varies: as the distance from the surfaguide increases, R
becomes smaller, and in correspondence to the position where
the conductivity is no more significant (28 cm in Figure 5) the
real part R is the same as measured when no pump signal is
applied: this position determines the plasma column height.
Magnetron
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3 - Isolator
4
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30
Plasma off
coupIer
Coax switch
Spectrum analyzer
.. .l .l .l .l ..
c::::J Plasrra on
-=
0
IX
Fig. 3.
20
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10
III.
120
150
along the
30
60
90
f[MHz]
Fig. 5.
60
::c
30
Fig. 4. Loop probe for plasma diagnostic put around the glass tube.
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40
60
Absorbed Power
Fig. 6.
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Posion 1
osion 2
V.
Posrtion 4
Fig. 7.
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
[I]
Received Power
[dBm[
Position
Copper
Plasma
I
2
3
4
-49.4
-48.2
-47.6
-47.4
-52 . 4
-51.1
-50.4
-50.3
Average 11 [dB]
A.
Shivarova,
p.1331-1400,Nov. 1982.
A.
W.
Trievelpiece,
Plasma Physics,
[3]
element,"
Measurement, vol.
D:
[4]
Appl. Phys.,
Jour of Physics
[6]
plasma
to
Trans.
Letters,
columns
radiofrequency
antennas,"
Appl. Phys.
-3.0
-2.9
-2.8
-2.9
[7]
[8]
-2.9
Physics of Plasmas,
Science,
and
[5]
11
IdB)
Moisan,
TABLE III
SENSOR RECEIVED POWER AND EFFICIENCY
M.
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