High-frequency EM scattering by edges in artificially hard and soft surfaces illuminated at oblique incidence

Abstract

Uniform high-frequency expressions describing the field scattered by edges in anisotropic impedance surfaces illuminated at oblique incidence are provided. The specific anisotropic impedance boundary condition considered here exhibits a vanishing surface impedance along a principal anisotropy axis and an arbitrary one in the orthogonal direction. In certain circumstances, this tensor surface impedance may represent an accurate model for describing the scattering properties of artificially hard and soft surfaces. In order to simplify the analysis but without losing pertinence with real problems, in all canonical configurations we consider a face of the wedge to be perfectly conducting. The anisotropic impedance face is characterized by a tensor surface impedance with the principal anisotropy axes parallel and perpendicular to the edge.