Title : 
Radiation through an inhomogeneous plasma covering a ground plane
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
U. S. Air Force Institute of Technology, Dayton, OH, USA
         
        
        
        
        
            fDate : 
3/1/1969 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Electromagnetic radiation from a slot-excited ground plane covered by a plasma layer with exponentially decreasing electron density is considered. It is found that the far-field radiation pattern is simply related to that found for the case where the layer is absent.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Electromagnetic propagation in nonhomogeneous media; Electromagnetic propagation in plasma media; Ground-wave propagation; Antennas and propagation; Electromagnetic fields; Electrons; Equations; Frequency; Geometry; Laboratories; Plasma density; Plasma waves; Poles and zeros;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/TAP.1969.1139395