Analysis of the Electromagnetic Scattering by Thick Gratings Using a Combined FEM/MM Solution

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 1991, Pages 1605-1614

  Gedney, Stephen D ^a   Mittra, Raj ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES - POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

DIELECTRIC SLAB; FEM/MM METHOD; HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; TE POLARIZATION; TM POLARIZATION; TRANSMISSION GRATINGS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 0026256559     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.102776     Document Type: Article

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