Diffraction of Cylindrical and Plane Waves by an Array of Absorbing Half-Screens

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 170-177

  Bertoni, Henry L ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; OPTICS;

ABSORBING HALF-SCREENS ARRAY; FRESNEL INTEGRAL; GLANCING INCIDENCE; MULTIPLE FORWARD DIFFRACTION; MULTIPLE KNIFE-EDGE DIFFRACTION; PHYSICAL OPTICS APPROXIMATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 0026820055     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.127401     Document Type: Article

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