On the use of series expansions for kirchhoff diffractals

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 595-610

  Perna, Stefano ^a,b   Iodice, Antonio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fractals; scattering; series expansions

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL SURFACES; IEEE STANDARDS; KEY PARAMETERS; KIRCHHOFF; KIRCHHOFF APPROACH; KIRCHHOFF APPROXIMATIONS; NATURAL SURFACE; REASONABLE VALUE; RIGOROUS ANALYSIS; SCATTERED FIELD; SCATTERING INTEGRAL; SERIES EXPANSION; SERIES EXPANSIONS; SURFACE PARAMETER;

DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; FRACTALS; SCATTERING;

EXPANSION;

EID: 79551619579     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2096381     Document Type: Article

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