Diffraction of radio waves from arbitrary one-dimensional surface impedance discontinuities

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 86-96

  Sarabandi, Kamal ^a   Casciato, Mark D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RADIO RECEIVERS; RADIO TRANSMITTERS; RADIO WAVES;

GEOMETRICAL THEORY OF DIFFRACTION; STATIONARY PHASE TECHNIQUE; SURFACE IMPEDANCE DISCONTINUITY; TRANSMITTER ANTENNA;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0032634187     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.752998     Document Type: Article

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