Electromagnetic scattering by multiple three-dimensional scatterers buried under multilayered media. I. Theory

A general procedure is developed for the analysis of electromagnetic (EM) scattering by multiple three-dimensional (3D) dielectric and/or conducting objects buried under one-dimensional (1D) multilayered media. In this first part of a two-part paper, general closed-form formulations for the electric fields excited by an arbitrarily oriented electric dipole under the layered media are first presented, from which electric-field integral equations for the buried dielectric objects, pure conducting objects, and their combinations are then obtained, and the scattered electric fields in the upper space are formulated. Finally, the physical significance of the above formulations is discussed. In the second part, numerical implementations for these integral equations and the scattered fields are investigated