A general multisegment artificial neural network architecture for the efficient evaluation of electromagnetic plane-wave wedge diffraction

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3476-3483

  Manara, Giuliano ^a   Nepa, Paolo ^a   Pelosi, Giuseppe ^b   Pinto, Alessandro ^b   Selleri, Stefano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Absorbing media; Anisotropic impedance surface; Artificial neural network (ANN); Electric impedance; Electromagnetic wave propagation; Impedance wedge; Neural nets; Wedge diffraction coefficient

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; SURFACE WAVES;

ANISOTROPIC IMPEDANCE SURFACE; WEDGE DIFFRACTION COEFFICIENT;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 37249043243     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.910356     Document Type: Article

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