The reflection of electromagnetic waves from stratified anisotropic media

Author

Titchener, John B. ; Willis, John R.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Math. Sci., Bath Univ., UK

Volume

39

Issue

1

fYear

1991

fDate

1/1/1991 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

35

Lastpage

39

Abstract

A direct approach to the investigation of the reflection of electromagnetic waves from a plane interface separating a vacuum half-space and a stratified anisotropic layer is presented. The formulation involves the generation of a Riccati differential equation for a certain 2×2 reflection matrix. The approach is already well established for scalar problems, but its implementation in cases which allow mode conversion is believed to be new. The reflection matrix concerned is unitary when the anisotropic layer is nondissipative, and an efficient numerical method to solve the equation is outlined. Sample results are presented to illustrate the theory

Keywords

differential equations; electromagnetic wave reflection; matrix algebra; EM wave reflection; Riccati differential equation; mode conversion; numerical method; plane interface; reflection matrix; stratified anisotropic media; vacuum half-space; Admittance; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Coatings; Electromagnetic reflection; Electromagnetic scattering; Electronic components; Helium; Permeability; Riccati equations; Surface waves;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-926X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/8.64432

Filename

64432