Scattering from a conductive rectangular plate covered by a thick dielectric layer and excited from a dipole source or a plane wave

The scattering of electromagnetic radiation from a conductive rectangular plate of infinitesimal thickness covered by a dielectric parallelepiped of arbitrary size is analyzed. An integral equation formulation is employed in terms of the electric field inside the dielectric layer and the surface current density on the conductive plate, and is solved approximately by using entire domain Galerkin technique. The electric field inside the dielectric layer is described in terms of a superposition of exponential waves while, in describing the surface current density on the conductive plate, two types of entire domain basis functions are utilized: either Fourier-exponential series or Chebyshev series type finite-term expansions are employed alternatively. Numerical results are computed and presented for several scatterer sizes and excitation types