An Exact Line Integral Representation of the Physical Optics Scattered Field: The Case of a Perfectly Conducting Polyhedral Structure Illuminated by Electric Hertzian Dipoles

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 689-696

  Johansen, Peter M ^a   Breinbjerg, Olav ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

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Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALCULATIONS; CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); DIPOLE ANTENNAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

ELECTRIC HERTZIAN DIPOLES; FRINGE WAVE CONTRIBUTION; LINE INTEGRAL REPRESENTATION; PERFECTLY CONDUCTING STRUCTURES; PHYSICAL OPTICS SCATTERED FIELD; SURFACE RADIATION INTEGRAL; VECTOR CALCULUS THEOREM;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 0029342144     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.391140     Document Type: Article

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