Transient Interactions of an EM Pulse with a Dielectric Spherical Shell

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 453-462

  Strifors, Hans C ^a   Gaunaurd, Guillermo C ^a   Brusmark, Bertil ^b   Abrahamson, Staffan ^a  

^a SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

^b NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIGITAL FILTERS; ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; RADAR SYSTEMS; RESONANCE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BROADBAND PULSES; DIELECTRIC SPHERICAL SHELL; FREQUENCY BAND; TRANSIENT INTERACTIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE;

EID: 0028409597     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.286212     Document Type: Article

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