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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.



>> For normal people... pretty much nothing.

Did you even read the article? They mention Solid State Plasma antennas, which can be fabricated using standard silicon chip fabrication techniques.


It is said it could be used for 60ghz wifi (wisig)




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