High-frequency EM scattering by edges in artificially hard and soft surfaces illuminated at oblique incidence

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 790-800

  Manara, Giuliano ^a,b   Nepa, Paolo ^a,b   Pelosi, Giuseppe ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BANDWIDTH; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TENSORS;

ARTIFICIAL MATERIALS; CROSS POLARIZATION; GEOMETRICAL THEORY OF DIFFRACTION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0034187408     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.855499     Document Type: Article

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