Feasibility study on the use of non-thermal plasma for a cold radio blackout experiment
Feasibility study on the use of non-thermal plasma for a cold radio blackout experiment
The presented study proposes a new method duplicating the re-entry radio blackout using electron density controllable non-thermal plasma layers. An electron density controllable non-thermal plasma source will be using dielectric barrier discharges (DBD) to reproduces the spatial electron density gradient of the re-entry plasma sheath. In this study, we assess the feasibility to duplicate the electron density gradient using a controllable thin-layer DBD plasma system fabricated with printed electronics. The measured electron density of a DBD plasma layer is in the range of 10^17 1/m^3 to 10^22 1/m^3 , which coincides with the levels reached during atmospheric re-entry and is therefore enough to cause re-entry radio blackout.
Jakob, Henrike
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Kim, Min Kwan
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5 January 2020
Jakob, Henrike
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Kim, Min Kwan
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Jakob, Henrike and Kim, Min Kwan
(2020)
Feasibility study on the use of non-thermal plasma for a cold radio blackout experiment.
AIAA SciTech 2020 Forum, , Orlando, United States.
06 - 10 Jan 2020.
(doi:10.2514/6.2020-2150).
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The presented study proposes a new method duplicating the re-entry radio blackout using electron density controllable non-thermal plasma layers. An electron density controllable non-thermal plasma source will be using dielectric barrier discharges (DBD) to reproduces the spatial electron density gradient of the re-entry plasma sheath. In this study, we assess the feasibility to duplicate the electron density gradient using a controllable thin-layer DBD plasma system fabricated with printed electronics. The measured electron density of a DBD plasma layer is in the range of 10^17 1/m^3 to 10^22 1/m^3 , which coincides with the levels reached during atmospheric re-entry and is therefore enough to cause re-entry radio blackout.
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Published date: 5 January 2020
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AIAA SciTech 2020 Forum, , Orlando, United States, 2020-01-06 - 2020-01-10
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