@inproceedings{discovery10066278, note = {This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.}, booktitle = {2018 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation (APCAP)}, pages = {425--428}, month = {November}, title = {On the Gain and Link Equation for Reactive Millimetre-wave Surface Wave Propagation System}, year = {2018}, publisher = {IEEE}, journal = {Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation, APCAP 2018}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/APCAP.2018.8538070}, abstract = {Surface-wave has been proven to be the third option between wired and wireless communication. It has been proposed to be utilised for inter-machine and on-body communications, because of its on-surface two-dimensional feature. It provides a flexible two-dimensional platform and shows many advantages such as power savings, excellent electromagnetic compatibility characteristic, non-line-of-sight communication over traditional space wave wireless communication systems. When compared to wired systems, surface wave systems can provide a wide band channel for one-to-many/many-to-one communications. This work we will demonstrate our recent work in the concept of surface wave gain and formulate the surface wave wireless link equation for the first time. A 52 GHz 3-dB bandwidth test bed was constructed to validate the theoretical and simulation results in the proposed method and equation.}, author = {Tong, KF and Wan, JX and Wu, XDWCB}, keywords = {Surface wave; reactive surface; link equation} }