Terminal impedance and antenna current distribution of a VLF electric dipole in the inner magnetosphere

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 8 II, 2008, Pages 2454-2468

  Chevalier, Timothy W ^a   Inan, Umran S ^a   Bell, Timothy F ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna; Plasma

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOSPHERE; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PLASMA STABILITY; TERMINALS (ELECTRIC); WAVE EQUATIONS;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; ANTENNA; CASE STUDIES; COLD PLASMAS; CURRENT DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTRIC DIPOLE; ELECTRIC DIPOLE ANTENNAS; EQUATORIAL PLANES; FINITE DIFFERENCING; FULL WAVES; INNER MAGNETOSPHERE; INPUT IMPEDANCES; MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PERFECTLY MATCHED; PLASMA; TERMINAL IMPEDANCE; VARIATIONS OF; VERY-LOW-FREQUENCY; WAVE AMPLIFICATION;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 49549106855     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.927497     Document Type: Article

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