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by hobbified
2475 days ago
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For normal people... pretty much nothing. You need power to keep the plasma hot, it's a safety hazard, and it's not cheap. For electrically-small antennas it looks like it might be slightly more efficient than a wire antenna of the same size (or slightly smaller than a wire antenna of the same efficiency) but most of the advantages listed pertain to military applications, and that seems to be who's driving the research. |
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Did you even read the article? They mention Solid State Plasma antennas, which can be fabricated using standard silicon chip fabrication techniques.