Resolution of a Controversy Surrounding the Kirchoff Approach and the Small Perturbation Method in Rough Surface Scattering Theory

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1987, Pages 120-122

  Holliday, Dennis ^a  

^a Logicon Inc   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SURFACES - ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

KIRCHHOFF APPROXIMATION (KA); MEAN BACKSCATTER CROSS SECTION; PERFECTLY CONDUCTING RANDOM ROUGH SURFACE; SMALL PERTURBATION METHOD (SPM);

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 0023163893     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.1987.1143978     Document Type: Article

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