Study of solar radiation effect on radio signal using plasma antenna

Bibliographic Details
Format: Restricted Document
_version_ 1860796912416849920
building INTELEK Repository
collection Online Access
collectionurl https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/search.php?search=!collection407072
date 2021-03-22 02:50:54
eventvenue Selangor, Virtual
format Restricted Document
id 10658
institution UniSZA
originalfilename 4727-01-FH03-ESERI-21-51641.pdf
person Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML
like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.190 Safari/537.36
recordtype oai_dc
resourceurl https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/view.php?ref=10658
spelling 10658 https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/view.php?ref=10658 https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/search.php?search=!collection407072 Restricted Document Conference Conference Paper application/pdf 4 1.6 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.190 Safari/537.36 Skia/PDF m88 2021-03-22 02:50:54 4727-01-FH03-ESERI-21-51641.pdf UniSZA Private Access Study of solar radiation effect on radio signal using plasma antenna Plasma antenna can be formed by energizing glass tubes which are filled with neutral gases. It works similarly as metal antenna where it can transmit and receive wireless signal. This study aims to investigate the effect of weather focused on solar radiation towards the performance of plasma antenna represented by signal strength. Fluorescent lamp was set as plasma because it used ionized gas as its conducting element instead of metal. Execution of electrical properties measurements need to be done first, in order to obtain discharge current and voltage values, that need to be used into Glomac programming for the generation of electron temperature and electron density. Next, calculations of the plasma properties was performed to derive the value of plasma and collision frequencies. The plasma properties are important parameters to design and simulate plasma antenna using Computer Simulation Technology (CST). Antenna parameters in terms of return loss, gain, directivity and radiation pattern can be simulated using CST. Signal strength experiment was conducted to evaluate plasma antenna performance in terms of its capability to capture the signals and analyse the effect of solar radiation on that particular moment through the rate of power level over time versus solar radiation data. It was observed at the highest solar radiation rate which is 920 V/m, the power level recorded is the lowest value at-172.93 dBm. Therefore, the signal strength received by the plasma antenna shows remarkable changes under the influence of solar radiation. 2nd International Conference on Space Weather and Satellite Application Selangor, Virtual
spellingShingle Study of solar radiation effect on radio signal using plasma antenna
summary Plasma antenna can be formed by energizing glass tubes which are filled with neutral gases. It works similarly as metal antenna where it can transmit and receive wireless signal. This study aims to investigate the effect of weather focused on solar radiation towards the performance of plasma antenna represented by signal strength. Fluorescent lamp was set as plasma because it used ionized gas as its conducting element instead of metal. Execution of electrical properties measurements need to be done first, in order to obtain discharge current and voltage values, that need to be used into Glomac programming for the generation of electron temperature and electron density. Next, calculations of the plasma properties was performed to derive the value of plasma and collision frequencies. The plasma properties are important parameters to design and simulate plasma antenna using Computer Simulation Technology (CST). Antenna parameters in terms of return loss, gain, directivity and radiation pattern can be simulated using CST. Signal strength experiment was conducted to evaluate plasma antenna performance in terms of its capability to capture the signals and analyse the effect of solar radiation on that particular moment through the rate of power level over time versus solar radiation data. It was observed at the highest solar radiation rate which is 920 V/m, the power level recorded is the lowest value at-172.93 dBm. Therefore, the signal strength received by the plasma antenna shows remarkable changes under the influence of solar radiation.
title Study of solar radiation effect on radio signal using plasma antenna
title_full Study of solar radiation effect on radio signal using plasma antenna
title_fullStr Study of solar radiation effect on radio signal using plasma antenna
title_full_unstemmed Study of solar radiation effect on radio signal using plasma antenna
title_short Study of solar radiation effect on radio signal using plasma antenna
title_sort study of solar radiation effect on radio signal using plasma antenna