Physical meaning of perturbative solutions for scattering from and through multilayered structures with rough interfaces

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2710-2724

  Imperatore, Pasquale ^a   Iodice, Antonio ^a   Riccio, Daniele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering; generalized reflection coefficients; layered media; perturbation methods; rough surfaces; scattering enhancement

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; LAYERED MEDIA; PERTURBATION METHOD; REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS; ROUGH SURFACES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETISM; REFLECTION; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

EID: 77955437785     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2050417     Document Type: Article

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