Gaussian rough surfaces and Kirchhoff approximation

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 392-398

  Collaro, Antonio ^a   Franceschetti, Giorgio ^a   Migliaccio, Maurizio ^b   Riccio, Daniele ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Istituto Teoria e Tecnica Delle Onde Elettromagnetiche   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

GAUSSIAN ROUGH SURFACES; KIRCHHOFF APPROXIMATION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY;

EID: 0032648316     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.761081     Document Type: Article

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