Skew incidence diffraction by an anisotropic impedance half plane with a PEC face and arbitrarily oriented anisotropy axes

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 487-496

  Manara, Giuliano ^a   Nepa, Paolo ^a   Pelosi, Giuseppe ^b   Vallecchi, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anisotropic surfaces; Electromagnetic diffraction; Half plane scattering; Uniform geometrical theory of diffraction (UTD) coefficients

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

ANISOTROPIC SURFACES; HALF-PLANE SCATTERING; SKEW INCIDENCE DIFFRACTION; UNIFORM GEOMETRICAL THEORY OF DIFFRACTION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION;

EID: 1942424817     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.823966     Document Type: Article

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