Diffraction by a Dielectric Half-Plane

Chakrabarti, A (1986) Diffraction by a Dielectric Half-Plane. In: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 34 (6). 830 -833.

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Abstract

The problem of diffraction of a plane electromagnetic wave by a dielectric half-plane is reconsidered for solution by utilizing a set of recently developed approximate boundary conditions and the Wiener-Hopf technique. It is observed from the present solution of the problem that reflected waves cease to exist if the angle of incidence takes up the valuetan$^-1(1/n)$ where n represents the refractive index of the material of the half-plane under consideration. Expression for the diffracted far field is obtained by using a modification of the saddle point method, and numerical values of the diffraction coefficients are presented in the form of a table for a special value of the refractive indexnand for different values of the parameterkh, hrepresenting the (small) thickness of the half-plane andkthe wavenumber.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Publisher:	IEEE
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Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Mathematics
Date Deposited:	03 Jun 2005
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:19
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/3268

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