Closed-form expressions of multilayered planar Green's functions that account for the continuous spectrum in the far field

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1601-1614

  Mesa, Francisco ^a,b   Boix, Rafael R ^a,b   Medina, Francisco ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Green's functions; Layered media; Sommerfeld integrals

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; DIELECTRIC LOSSES; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; INTEGRATION; LEAD; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NUMBER THEORY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES; WAVES;

CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSIONS; CONTINUOUS SPECTRUM; FAR FIELDS; HANKEL TRANSFORM (IGC: E12); MULTI-LAYERED; MULTILAYERED MEDIA; NEW APPROACHES; NUMERICA L RESULTS; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; RATIONAL FUNCTION FITTING METHOD (RFFM); SOMMERFELD INTEGRALS; TOTAL LEAST SQUARE (TLS);

GREEN'S FUNCTION;

EID: 47649096526     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.925576     Document Type: Article

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