Microwave scattering from dielectric wedges with planar surfaces: A diffraction coefficient based on a physical optics version of GTD

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1515-1527

  Burge R E ^a   Yuan, X C ^a   Carroll, B D ^a   Fisher, N E ^a   Hall, T J ^a   Lester, G A ^a   Taket, N D ^a   Oliver, Chris J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PHYSICAL OPTICS; RADAR SIMULATORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD); GEOMETRICAL THEORY OF DIFFRACTION (GTD); MICROWAVE SCATTERING;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 0033353593     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.805894     Document Type: Article

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