Re:Plasma Antenna
by hobbified on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @04:56PM
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For normal people... pretty much nothing. You need power to keep the plasma hot, it's a safety hazard, and it's not cheap. For electrically-small antennas it looks like it might be slightly more efficient than a wire antenna of the same size (or slightly smaller than a wire antenna of the same efficiency) but most of the advantages listed pertain to military applications, and that seems to be who's driving the research.
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Re:Plasma Antenna
by heavenlyblue on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @05:22AM
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>> For normal people... pretty much nothing.
Did you even read the article? They mention Solid State Plasma antennas, which can be fabricated using standard silicon chip fabrication techniques.
Re:Plasma Antenna
by The_rationalist on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @05:21PM
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It is said it could be used for 60ghz wifi (wisig)