Numerical calculation of diffraction coefficients of generic conducting and dielectric wedges using FDTD

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1525-1529

  Stratis, Glafkos ^a   Anantha, Veeraraghavan ^a   Taflove, Alien ^a  

^a MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering; Fdtd methods

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; PERMITTIVITY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DIELECTRIC WEDGES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0031257031     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.633861     Document Type: Article

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