Chemically enhanced isolated capacitance

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a guided surface waveguide probe configured to create a plurality of resultant fields that are substantially mode-matched to a guided surface waveguide mode on a surface of a lossy conducting medium,

wherein the guided surface waveguide probe further comprises a charge terminal, the guided surface waveguide probe being further configured to impose a voltage magnitude and a phase on the charge terminal; and

a plurality of charge devices positioned on a surface of the charge terminal, a respective one of the plurality of charge devices configured to generate a free charge that is made available to couple energy into the guided surface waveguide mode.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the charge terminal is elevated over the lossy conducting medium and is configured to generate at least one resultant field that synthesizes a wave front incident at a complex Brewster angle of incidence (θ i,B ) of the lossy conducting medium.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the charge terminal is one of a plurality of charge terminals.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising a feed network electrically coupled to the charge terminal, the feed network providing a phase delay (Φ) that matches a wave tilt angle (Ψ) associated with a complex Brewster angle of incidence (θ i,B ) associated with the lossy conducting medium in a vicinity of the guided surface waveguide probe.

5. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the charge terminal is one of a plurality of charge terminals.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the free charge is generated responsive to the voltage magnitude imposed on the charge terminal reaching a predefined voltage.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the respective charge device comprises a container of a gas substance having an electrode, the electrode having one end in contact with the gas substance and an opposite end in contact with a surface of the charge terminal.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the free charge is generated responsive to the voltage magnitude imposed on the charge terminal reaching a predefined voltage, wherein the predefined voltage is less than a breakdown voltage of the gas substance.

9. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the gas substance comprises at least one noble gas.

10. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the gas substance is maintained at a pressure that is conducive for ionizing the gas substance and does not allow for the gas substance to become conductive.

11. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the respective charge device comprises a container of an insulating gas having an electrode, the electrode having one end in contact with the insulating gas and an opposite end in contact with a surface of the charge terminal.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein a surface of the container comprises an insulator material.

13. A method comprising:

positioning a plurality of charge devices on a surface of a charge terminal, a respective one of the plurality of charge devices configured to generate a free charge that is made available to couple energy into a guided surface waveguide mode;

generating, via a guided surface waveguide probe, a plurality of resultant fields that is substantially mode-matched to the guided surface waveguide mode on a surface of a lossy conducting medium, wherein the guided surface waveguide probe comprises the charge terminal; and

transmitting, via the guided surface waveguide probe, electrical energy in a form of a guided surface wave along a surface of the lossy conducting medium.

14. The method of claim 13 , further comprising setting a physical height for the charge terminal so that the plurality of resultant fields substantially synthesize a wave front incident at a complex Brewster angle of the lossy conducting medium, resulting in substantially zero reflection.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the charge terminal is one of a plurality of charge terminals.

16. The method of claim 13 , further comprising electrically coupling a feed network to the charge terminal, the feed network providing a phase delay (Φ) that matches a wave tilt angle (Ψ) associated with a complex Brewster angle of incidence (θ i,B ) associated with the lossy conducting medium in a vicinity of the guided surface waveguide probe.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the charge terminal is one of a plurality of charge terminals.

18. The method of claim 13 , wherein the respective charge device comprises a container of a gas substance having an electrode, the electrode having one end in contact with the gas substance and an opposite end in contact with a surface of the charge terminal.

19. The method of claim 18 , further comprising maintaining the gas substance at a pressure that is conducive for ionizing the gas substance and does not allow for the gas substance to become conductive.

20. The method of claim 13 , wherein the charge terminal comprises a spherical shape, the method further comprising limiting a physical height for the charge terminal to be 4D or less, wherein D=a diameter of the charge terminal.

21. An apparatus comprising:

a guided surface waveguide probe configured to create a plurality of resultant fields that are substantially mode-matched to a guided surface waveguide mode on a surface of a lossy conducting medium,

wherein the guided surface waveguide probe further comprises a chemically enhanced charge terminal, the guided surface waveguide probe being further configured to impose a voltage magnitude and a phase on the chemically enhanced charge terminal; and

wherein the chemically enhanced charge terminal comprises a dielectric container structure filled with an insulator substance which is configured to generate a free charge that is made available to couple energy into the guided surface waveguide mode.