Cylindrical antenna in uniaxial resonant plasmas

The current distribution and the input admittance of a cylindrical antenna immersed in two types of uniaxial resonant plasmas are treated in this paper as boundary value problems. It is first indicated that the Hallen type integral equation approach is not suitable, since it does not describe the actual physical phenomenon closely. The method used here is based on the concept of multiple reflections of current waves between the two terminals of a solid antenna, and simple approximate solutions for thin antennas are obtained by using the newly developed extension of the Wiener-Hopf technique.