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Density oscillation of plasma sheath and its influence on electromagnetic wave behavior

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In the area of hypersonic flight, the existence of plasma sheath will interfere with signals transmission, such as for wireless communication, telemetry, and control, even cause transmission interruption so as to threaten flight safety. Over the past decades, the influence of plasma sheath on electromagnetic transmission becomes one of the essential issues in this field. Through analysis of experimental data, this paper finds that apart from the conventional physical properties, such as the electron density, the geometric characteristic, and the collision frequency, the distribution characteristic in space of plasma density possesses an obvious oscillation phenomenon which possible to exert important influences on electromagnetic wave behaviors. To quantitatively describe this phenomenon, the probability theory is introduced to develop a physical modeling method for the plasma sheath with density oscillation feature. Then, the transmission matrix method is developed to investigate the influence of the sheath oscillation characteristic on radiowave transmission, which is mainly focused on the interaction with density oscillation expectation. Results obtained in this paper not only present a more accurate method to model plasma sheath in real environment, but also demonstrate that its inherent random feature is of great importance to determine the electromagnetic transmission behaviors, deserving further investigations.

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  1. College of Big Data and Information Engineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, China

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  2. Semiconductor Power Device Reliability Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education, Guiyang, 550025, China

    Xin Yang

  3. Key Laboratory of Micro-Nano-Electronics and Software Technology of Guizhou Province, Guiyang, 550025, China

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Yang, X. Density oscillation of plasma sheath and its influence on electromagnetic wave behavior. J. Korean Phys. Soc. 82, 1150–1156 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40042-023-00784-z

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