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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2013.24.3.324

Analysis of Electromagnetic Wave Scattering Characteristics of Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma  

Lee, Soo-Min (Department of Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University)
Oh, Il-Young (Department of Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University)
Hong, Yong-Jun (Agency for Defence Development)
Yook, Jong-Gwan (Department of Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University)
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Abstract
This paper presented measurement results of scattering characteristics of dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma at atmospheric pressure. In this paper, plasma actuator is fabricated by parallel connecting of basic configuration of DBD plasma actuator, then plasma could be generated by applying 14 kV, 4 kHz of high voltage generator. In order to measure the scattering characteristics of DBD plasma, in this paper, two horn antennas and vector network analyzer are used to compare the S-parameter. Because of the structure of fabricated plasma generator, different result is obtained as antenna polarization changes. When antenna polarization is parallel to electrodes of plasma generator, the scattered field is reduced by 2 dB in maximum. In addition, for parallel polarization case, PEC is set up behind the plasma generator to measure backward scattered field. When the observation angles are $40^{\circ}C$ and $60^{\circ}C$, the amount of reduced scattered field is 2 dB in maximum at 5 GHz.
Keywords
DBD Plasma Generator; Scattered Field Measurement System; Scattered Field Reduction;
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