High-frequency bistatic scattering by depolarizing, nearly omnidirectional reflectors: Higher order polyhedral reflectors

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3029-3035

  Kubické, Gildas ^a   Bourlier, Christophe ^a   Saillard, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Corner reflectors; Diffraction; Electromagnetic scattering; Geometrical optics (GOs); Physical optics (POs); Radar cross section (RCS)

Indexed keywords

DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC REACTORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLARIZATION; REFLECTION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS;

CORNER REFLECTORS; DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS (GOS); PHYSICAL OPTICS (POS); RADAR CROSS SECTION (RCS);

NUMBER THEORY;

EID: 51749083531     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.928779     Document Type: Article

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