Comptes Rendus
no. 5
Non-thermal plasma potentialities for microwave device reconfigurability
[Potentialités des plasmas froids pour la reconfigurabilité de dispositifs micro-ondes]
Jérôme Sokoloff1, 2  ; Olivier Pascal1, 2  ; Thierry Callegari1, 2  ; Romain Pascaud3  ; Francisco Pizarro1, 3  ; Laurent Liard1, 2  ; Juslan Lo1, 2  ; Asma Kallel1, 2
1 Université de Toulouse, UPS-INPT LAPLACE, 118, route de Narbonne, Bât. 3R2, 31062 Toulouse cedex 9, France
2 Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d'Énergie (LAPLACE), CNRS, 31000 Toulouse, France
3 Université de Toulouse, ISAE DEOS, 10, avenue Édouard-Belin, BP 54032, 31055 Toulouse cedex 4, France
Comptes Rendus. Physique, Volume 15 (2014) no. 5, pp. 468-478.

Nous présentons dans ce papier trois exemples de travaux menés à Toulouse par des équipes issues des communautés micro-ondes et plasma. L'objectif est d'utiliser des plasmas froids pour rendre un dispositif micro-ondes reconfigurable. En effet, la permittivité relative du plasma peut être contrôlée et varier de l'unité jusqu'à des valeurs négatives. L'exploitation de cette propriété s'avère potentiellement très intéressante. En revanche, aux fréquences micro-ondes, les pertes électromagnétiques sont importantes. L'intégration de plasmas dans des structures planaires puis dans des métamatériaux est présentée. En complément, nous exposons le principe d'une antenne à balayage à onde de fuite utilisant un plasma.

Three examples of results achieved from cooperative works with microwave and plasma research groups in Toulouse (France) are presented in this paper. They are focused on the use of few non-thermal plasmas to make a microwave device reconfigurable. The relative permittivity of such a plasma medium can be tuned from unity to negative values. This special feature appears to be very attractive, although the electromagnetic losses are significant. The use of plasmas with planar waveguides and within metamaterials is discussed. In addition, the basic principles of a scanning antenna built with a leaky wave in a plasma layer are presented.

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DOI : 10.1016/j.crhy.2014.02.006
Keywords: Microwave, Cold plasma, Metamaterials, Leaky wave, Antenna
Mot clés : Micro-ondes, Plasma froid, Métamatériaux, Onde de fuite, Antenne
Jérôme Sokoloff 1, 2 ; Olivier Pascal 1, 2 ; Thierry Callegari 1, 2 ; Romain Pascaud 3 ; Francisco Pizarro 1, 3 ; Laurent Liard 1, 2 ; Juslan Lo 1, 2 ; Asma Kallel 1, 2

1 Université de Toulouse, UPS-INPT LAPLACE, 118, route de Narbonne, Bât. 3R2, 31062 Toulouse cedex 9, France
2 Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d'Énergie (LAPLACE), CNRS, 31000 Toulouse, France
3 Université de Toulouse, ISAE DEOS, 10, avenue Édouard-Belin, BP 54032, 31055 Toulouse cedex 4, France 
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