Interaction of an air plasma layer covering a conducting surface with microwaves

Author

Laroussi, Mounir

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tennessee Univ., Knoxville, TN, USA

fYear

1997

Firstpage

135

Abstract

Summary form only given, as follows. Due to their extremely high collision frequency (THz), atmospheric pressure plasmas interact with electromagnetic waves, in a quite different fashion than low pressure plasmas. In this paper, we study the attenuation, reflection, total scattering, and backscattering of microwaves, by a uniform, steady-state sheet of air plasma, covering a conducting surface. The effect of parameters such as the plasma number density, sheet thickness, wave frequency and polarization, will investigated.

Keywords

electromagnetic wave reflection; electromagnetic wave scattering; microwave propagation; plasma electromagnetic wave propagation; air plasma layer; atmospheric pressure plasmas; attenuation; backscattering; conducting surface; electromagnetic waves; extremely high collision frequency; low pressure plasmas; microwaves interaction; plasma number density; reflection; sheet thickness; total scattering; uniform steady-state plasma sheet; wave frequency; wave polarization; Atmospheric waves; Atmospheric-pressure plasmas; Attenuation; Backscatter; Electromagnetic reflection; Electromagnetic scattering; Frequency; Plasma density; Plasma waves; Steady-state;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plasma Science, 1997. IEEE Conference Record - Abstracts., 1997 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA, USA

ISSN

0730-9244

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3990-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLASMA.1997.604400

Filename

604400