Scattering by a resistive half-plane residing between two dissimilar media

Abstract

The scattering problem of plane electromagnetic waves by a resistive half-plane, located at the planar interface of two media with different electromagnetic properties, is studied. First of all, the reflection and transmission coefficients of a resistive whole plane, between two different media, are evaluated. The scattered geometrical optics waves are obtained for the problem under consideration. They are used in order to determine the diffracted waves, which are expressed in terms of a split function that arises in the solution of the diffraction problem by a resistive half plane. The uniform diffraction fields are obtained by using the uniform theory of diffraction. The behavior of the total, total geometric optics and diffracted waves are studied numerically.