New insight into the classical Macdonald physical optics approximation

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 11-20

  Ufimtsev, Pyotr Ya ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic scattering; Electromagnetic scattering; Forward scattering; Fresnel diffraction; Physical optics; Physical theory of diffraction; Shadow radiation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; LIGHT; PHYSICAL OPTICS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; SCATTERING;

ABSORBING MATERIALS; ACOUSTIC SCATTERING; CLASSICAL APPROXIMATION; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; FORWARD SCATTERING; FRESNEL DIFFRACTION; PHYSICAL OPTICS APPROXIMATIONS; PHYSICAL THEORY OF DIFFRACTION; SCATTERED FIELDS; SCATTERING PROBLEMS; SHADOW RADIATION; TOTAL POWER;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 48949094771     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2008.4563560     Document Type: Article

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