Method of moments analysis of the backscattering properties of a corrugated trihedral corner reflector

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1167-1173

  Hänninen, Ilari ^a   Pitkonen, Mikko ^a   Nikoskinen, Keijo I ^a   Sarvas, Jukka ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Corner reflector; Electromagnetic scattering; Method of moments (MoM); Radar cross section (RCS); Soft and hard surface (SHS)

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; INTEGRATION; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POLARIZATION; RADAR CROSS SECTION;

BACKSCATTERING PROPERTIES; CORRUGATED TRIHEDRAL CORNER REFLECTOR; SOFT AND HARD SURFACE (SHS);

ANTENNA REFLECTORS;

EID: 33645713475     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.872676     Document Type: Article

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