%L discovery10066278 %K Surface wave; reactive surface; link equation %C Auckland, New Zealand %J Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation, APCAP 2018 %X 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. %A KF Tong %A JX Wan %A XDWCB Wu %O This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. %D 2018 %T On the Gain and Link Equation for Reactive Millimetre-wave Surface Wave Propagation System %B 2018 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation (APCAP) %I IEEE %P 425-428