Ionized Plasma Antenna Development Concept

By utilizing ionized conductors as antenna elements (ICA) you can construct an antenna that can be dynamically reconfigured for frequency, directionality, bandwidth, gain and beamwidth. Further, the antenna could be deionized when not in use, which will substantially reduce its radar cross-section and thus it's detectability (stealth). When used as an impulse transmitter, extremely short pulses are possible by deionizing the antenna to prevent ringing associated with traditional antenna configurations, thus combining the benefits of low probability of intercept (outgoing signal) with low probability of detection (stealth). Further, the extremely short impulse(because ringing was prevented) will allow substantially improved wavelet decomposition of the return with less computational overhead. The improved decomposition yields greater accuracy in the target detection and classification algorithms.