Correction to" Plane Wave Diffraction by an Impedance Step

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Diffraction by an Impedance Step”'. A. Biiyiikaksoy and F. Birbir. In solving the Wiener-Hopf equation (23a) appearing in the above paper,' two cases have been ...
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION, VOL. 44, NO. 3, MARCH 1996

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tS Correction to “Plane Wave Diffraction by an Impedance Step”’ A. Biiyiikaksoy and F. Birbir

In solving the Wiener-Hopf equation (23a) appearing in the above paper,’ two cases have been considered seperately, according to the zero of the factor ( k / q 2 - a ) . However from ( l l b ) it is seen that this factor should not vanish. Hence, the correct solution of the Wiener-Hopf equation in (23a) should be as given in (26) only. Figs. 4(a), (b), and 5 are reproduced here by computing &?+(a) from (26). It is seen from the corrected Fig. 5 that the scattering effects of the step can be reduced if its impedance is capacitive. Furthermore, the printing errors in (23d) and (25b) should be corrected as follows: T=k

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Fig. 4. Scattered field versus the observation angle 4 for different values of the half-plane impedances. (a) Half-plane impedances are capacitive, and (b) half-plane impedances are inductive.

The errors are regretted.

Manuscript received November 27, 1995. The authors are with the Istanbul Technical University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Faculty, 80626 Istanbul, Turkey. Publisher Item Identifier S 0018-926X(96)01829-7. ‘A. Biiyiikaksoy and F. Birbir, IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 41, pp. 1160-1164, Aug. 1993.

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Fig. 5. Scattered field versus the observation angle q5 for different values of the step impedances.

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