Title :
On the Integral Identities Consisting of Two Spherical Bessel Functions
Author :
Qiu, Cheng-Wei ; Li, Le-Wei ; Zouhdi, Saïd ; Yeo, Tat-Soon ; Wu, Qun
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore
Abstract :
When deriving dyadic Green´s functions for the spherical structures with gyrotropic or bianisotropic materials, an integral whose integrand function consists of two spherical Bessel functions and a power function needs to be evaluated. Therefore, this paper revisits thoroughly the evaluation of the integral of Il,l´(kappa,kappa´). Starting from pointing out an error, it provides the correct solution to the integral in spherical coordinates in terms of distribution, in particular, step functions and delta functions. The formulation is further extended to a more generalized integral Hl,l´lambda(kappa,kappa´); and it is newly found that the solution to the generalized integral varies differently in the cases of even and odd values of l-l´. The mistakes that we found in the previous literature can also be proved easily by some of our intermediate solutions
Keywords :
Bessel functions; Green´s function methods; computational electromagnetics; integral equations; metamaterials; bianisotropic materials; dyadic Green´s function; gyrotropic material; integral identity; integrand function; power function; spherical Bessel function; Antennas and propagation; Aperture antennas; Atomic layer deposition; Atomic measurements; Composite materials; Electromagnetic fields; Error correction; Gyrotropism; Kernel; Metamaterials; Bessel function; bianisotropic metamaterials; dyadic Green´s functions (DGFs); electromagnetic field;
Journal_Title :
Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TAP.2006.888467