A Plane Wave Expansion of Spherical Wave Functions for Modal Analysis of Guided Wave Structures and Scatterers

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 10 II, 2003, Pages 2801-2805

  MacPhie, Robert H ^a   Wu, Ke Li ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic theory; Guided waves; Modal analysis; Scattering; Waveguide

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MODAL ANALYSIS; VECTORS; WAVEGUIDES;

SPHERICAL WAVE FUNCTIONS;

GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0142063071     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.818009     Document Type: Article

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