Planar diffraction analysis of homogeneous and longitudinally inhomogeneous gratings based on legendre expansion of electromagnetic fields

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3686-3694

  Chamanzar, Maysamreza ^a   Mehrany, Khashayar ^a   Rashidian, Bizhan ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic diffraction by periodic structures; Gratings; Inhomogeneous gratings; Legendre polynomials

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS; COMPUTATION LOADS; CONSTANT COEFFICIENTS; COUPLED WAVES; DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; EIGENVALUES; ELECTROMAGNETIC DIFFRACTION BY PERIODIC STRUCTURES; ELECTROMAGNETIC DIFFRACTIONS; LEGENDRE EXPANSION; LEGENDRE POLYNOMIALS; MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL INSTABILITY; PLANAR GRATING; RECURSIVE PROPERTY; RIGOROUS APPROACH; ROUND-OFF ERRORS; STATE VARIABLES; TEST CASE;

COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; POLYNOMIALS;

PERIODIC STRUCTURES;

EID: 34248653259     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.886475     Document Type: Article

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