Improvements to diffraction coefficient for non-perfectly conducting wedges

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 3105-3109

  El Sallabi, Hassan M ^a   Vainikainen, Pertti ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Diffraction; Propagation; Uniform theory of diffraction (UTD); Wedge

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

FRESNEL REFLECTION COEFFICIENT; HOLM DIFFRACTION COEFFICIENT; NON PERFECTLY CONDUCTING WEDGE; UNIFORM THEORY OF DIFFRACTION (UTD);

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION;

EID: 27644441821     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.854534     Document Type: Article

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