Two-dimensional FDTD inverse-scattering scheme for determination of near-surface material properties at microwave frequencies

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2366-2373

  Popović, Milica ^a   Taflove, Allen ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREQUENCIES; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SKIN EFFECT; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PULSE; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN; INVERSE SCATTERING; MICROWAVE FREQUENCY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 4644303575     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.832515     Document Type: Article

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