Tapered wave with dominant polarization state for all angles of incidence

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1086-1096

  Braunisch, Henning ^b   Zhang, Yan ^a,b   Ao, Chi O ^b   Shih, Shih En ^a,b   Yang, Y Eric ^a,b,c   Ding, Kung Hau ^a,b   Kong, Jin A ^a,b   Tsang, Leung ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Rannoch Corporation   (United States)

^d University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VECTORS;

ANGLES OF INCIDENCE; DOMINANT POLARIZATION STATE; LEAST SQUARE ERROR; TAPERED WAVE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0034217250     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.876328     Document Type: Article

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