A General, Uniform Double Wedge Diffraction Coefficient

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 8-14

  Schneider, Michael ^a   Luebbers, Raymond J ^b  

^a ROBERT BOSCH GMBH   (Germany)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICS--GEOMETRICAL;

DOUBLE WEDGE DIFFRACTION COEFFICIENT; FRESNEL INTEGRALS; UNIFORM THEORY OF DIFFRACTION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 0025953255     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.64428     Document Type: Article

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