PROCEEDINGSOF THE

International Conferenceon Electromagnetics

in Advanced Applications

ICEAA A03

September 8-12, 2003Torino, Italy

SESSION INDEX

Session 1: MICROWAVE AND MM-WAVE ANTENNAS-1

APPLICATIONS OF MULTI-RESOLUTION ANALYSIS TO ANTENNA DESIGNM. Sabbadini pg. 3

DESIGN OF MICROWAVE ANTENNAS: NEURAL NETWORK APPROACHTO TIME-DOMAIN MODELING OF V-DIPOLEZ. Lukes, Z. Raida pg. 7

WAVELET EXPANSION OF THE FAR FIELD FOR ANTENNA BEAM SHAPINGF. Vipiana, M. Sabbadini, G. Vecchi pg. 11

BOW-TIE ANTENNA: OPTIMAL POINT FOR COAXIAL FEEDINGE. Avila-Navarro, C. Reig pg. 15

CIRCULAR ANTENNA WITH V-SHAPE RADIATION PATTERN IN E PLANEW. Kolosowski, M. Wnuk, A Jeziorski, G. Rozanski pg. 19

APPLICATION OF WAVEGUIDE TECHNOLOGY FOR CALCULATINGTHE PROFILE OF PHOTOINDUCED PLASMAM.R. Chaharmir, J. Shaker, M. Cuhaci, A. Sebak pg. 21

Session 2: EM THEORY

LAGRANGIAN PERTURBATION THEORY FOR POLARISED SOLITONSOF THE VECTOR MAXWELL-BLOCH SYSTEMJ.M. Arnold, R. W. Waterton pg. 27

MODAL PROPAGATION IN A CIRCULAR TUNNEL WITH A ROUGH WALL:SURFACE-IMPEDANCE FORMULATIONK.F. Casey .. .'• pg. 29

sFURTIVITY AND MASKING PROBLEMS IN ELECTROMAGNETICOBSTACLE SCATTERING AS OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEMSF. Zirilli pg. 33

ACCURATE AND EFFICIENT METHODS FOR THE TREATMENTOF SHIELDED MICROSTRIP LINESP.D. Smith, S.S. Vinogradov, E.D. Vinogradova, I. Kohlberg pg. 35

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NANOMAGNETS: FROM NANO-DOTS TO NANO-RINGSV. Metlushko, U. Welp, etal pg. 39

Session 3: WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

A STUDY ON ROOF-TO-STREET PROPAGATIONV. Degli Esposti, F. Fuschini, D. Guiducci pg. 45

KRIGING THE FIELDS: A NEWSTATISTICAL TOOLFOR WAVE PROPAGATION ANALYSISPh. De Doncker, J.M. Dricot, R. Meyes, M. Helier, W. Tabbara pg. 49

IMPACT OF BUILDING CONSTRUCTION ON THE PROPAGATIONOF ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGYJ. Latess, Stoudt, K. Bowers pg. 53

A PARAMETRIC STUDY OF GO TRANSMISSIONAPPLIED TO AN ULTRA WIDE BAND SIGNALE. Plouhinec, B. Uguen, F. Tchoffo pg. 57

ADVANCED ELECTRO-THERMAL ANALYSIS FOR THE ASSESSMENTOF HUMAN EXPOSURE IN THE NEAR-FIELD OF EM SOURCESA. Bijamov, A. Razmadze, L. Shoshiashvili, K. Tavzarashvili, R. Zaridze,G. Bit-Babik, A. Faraone pg. 61

HIGH-GAIN LOW-COST ANTENNA SYSTEMS FOR WLANAND HYPERLAN POINT TO POINT LINKSR. Gardelli, G. La Cono, M. Albani pg. 65

SENSIBILITY OF RAY TRACING METHODS TO ENVIRONMENTDESCRIPTION IN DIFFERENT URBAN SCENARIOSL. Valbonesi, R.E. Zich pg. 69

COMPATIBLE DEPLOYMENT, USE, AND MANAGEMENTOF MOBILE PHONES AND OTHER PORTABLE WIRELESSCOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT IN HOSPITALSJ. Morrissey .., pg. 73

A MINIATURE QUADBAND ANTENNA FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONSP. Ciais, R. Staraj, G. Kossiavas, C. Luxey pg. 75

CHARACTERIZATION AND MODELING OF INDOORMULTIPATH CHANNEL AT 2.4 GHZF. Bormida, P. Savi, F. Dovis, M. Mondin pg. 79

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Session 4: SPECIAL SESSION ON COMPUTATIONALMETHODS IN EMOrganized by R.D. Graglia, D.R. Wilton

REVISITING THE EVALUATION OF POTENTIAL INTEGRALSM. Khayat, D.R. Wilton pg. 83

NEW HIGHER ORDER TWO-DIMENSIONAL SINGULAR ELEMENTSFOR FEM AND MOM APPLICATIONSR.D. Graglia, G. Lombardi pg. 87

IMPLEMENTATION OF HIGHER-ORDER TWO-DIMENSIONALSINGULAR ELEMENTS IN FEM CODES AND NUMERICAL RESULTSG. Lombardi pg. 91

FRESNEL INTEGRAL EQUATIONS: NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATIONR.J. Adams, N.J. Champagne, B.A. Davis pg. 95

HOMOLOGY, COHOMOLOGY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF DISCRETEFUNCTION SPACES FOR FINITE AND BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHODSM. Bluck, S.R Walker pg. 99

COUPLED ELECTROMAGNETIC-CIRCUITSIMULATIONS USING HIGHER-ORDER ELEMENTS AND BASESN.J. Champagne, J.D. Rockway V. Jandhyala pg. 103

MODELING OF COUPLING INTO CAVITIESTHROUGH THIN SLOTS WITH THE EIGER CODEW.A. Johnson, L.K. Warne, R.E. Jorgenson, J.D. Kotulski,G.H. Hudson, S.L Stronach pg. 107

A SYMMETRIC FEM-IE FORMULATIONWITH A SINGLE-LEVEL IE-QR ALGORITHMM. Vouvakis, S. Lee, K. Zhao, J.-F. Lee pg. 111

ANALYSIS OF GIGAHERTZ TEM CELL USING CONTOUR-PATHAND NONORTHOGONAL FDTD METHODSO. Franek, Z. Raida, V. Navratil, M. Leone pg. 115

ANALYSIS OF NONLINEAR SUPERCONDUCTING MICROSTRIPLINES WITH THE AID OF THE FINITE ELEMENT METHODA. Toscano, L. Vegni pg. 119

INADEQUACIES IN FINITE DIFFERENCE SOLUTIONOF LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR MAGNETOSTATIC PROBLEMSWHEN BOUNDARY CONDITION OF THE THIRD KIND IS USEDE. Afjei, H. Arbab pg. 121

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CONSISTENT 3D-FDTD SUBGRIDS FOR MICROWAVE APPLICATIONSR. Schuhmann, F. Mayer, T. Weiland pg. 125

Session 5: ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING OF DEVICESAND CIRCUITS

WIDE BAND GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION OF MICROSTRIP LINEUSING POLYTOPE ALGORITHMS AND REAL GENETIC ALGORITHMSV. Otevrel, Z. Raida pg. 131

NEW ACCURATE FORMULA FOR THE CHARACTERISTICIMPEDANCE OF A MICROSTRIP LINE WITH A DIELECTRIC OVERLAYF. Bilotti, A. Alu, L Vegni pg. 135

CHARACTERISTIC IMPEDANCE AND CROSSTALKOF SHIELDED TRACKS ON A PCBS. Kapora, A.P.J. van Deursen pg. 139

TRIPLET DIELECTRIC RESONATOR FILTERS WITH DIRECT COUPLINGA. Abramowicz, J. Krupka, K. Derzakowski pg. 143

TIME-DOMAIN PARAMETERS OF MICROWAVE TRANSMISSION LINESM. Motl, Z. Raida pg. 147

A NEW TYPE OF PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE AT MILLIMETER WAVEY. Kokubo, T. Kawai, I. Ohta pg. 151

BROADBAND DESIGN OF PLANAR TRANSMISSION LINES:FEED-FORWARD NEURAL APPROACH VERSUS RECURRENT ONEZ Raida pg. 155

COUPLED-INTEGRAL-EQUATIONS AND DE-EMBEDDINGTECHNIQUES FOR THE ANALYSIS OF VARIABLE CROSS-SECTIONWAVEGUIDE COMPONENTSM. Baralis, O.A. Peverini, G. Virone, R. Tascone, R. Orta pg. 159

MACHINE-ORIENTED BROAD BAND MATCHED BENDSIN RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDEG. Virone, R. Tascone, M. Baralis, O.A. Peverini, G. Gentili pg. 163

DEVICE MODELLING USING THE EMX SOFTWAREW. Arter, J. W. Eastwood, N.J. Brealey pg. 167

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Session 6: MATERIAL AND MEASUREMENTS

DESIGN OF A MICROWAVE EXPOSURE SYSTEMA. Bedini, E. D'Emilia, C. Giliberti, M. Borra, M. Mariani, R. Palomba, L. Giuliani .. pg. 173

MILLIMETER-WAVE RADOMES MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATIONM. Feo, S. Luce pg. 177

NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION OF THE STEEL FIBER DENSITYIN FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETEWITH AN OPEN-ENDED COAXIAL SENSORA. Franchois, S. Van Damme, F Bogman pg. 181

SHIELDED CLOSED HIRF/EMC FACILITY AT ALENIA AERONAUTICAA. Saroglia, M. D'Urso, I. Bertino pg. 185

PREPARATION OF ULTRAFINE POWDERSIN HIGH-FREQUENCY (HF) DISCHARGEST. Protasevich, V.I. Shishkovsky pg. 189

THE QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION OF THE IMMUNITY LEVELSOF DEVICES AND SYSTEMSM. Audone, S. Monte pg. 191

A NOVEL FAST FRAGMENTAL ALGORITHM FOR RECONSTRUCTING2-D UNIFORM SAMPLES FROM 2-D BIPOLAR ONESFOR TIME-DOMAIN PLANAR NEAR-FIELD ANTENNA MEASUREMENTSV. Dehghanian, M. Okhovvat, M. Hakkak pg. 195

ANALYSIS OF QUASI-STATIC FIELDS IN UNIAXIAL CHIRAL OMEGA MEDIAR. Saraei, J.R. Mohassel pg. 199

Session 7: MICROWAVE AND MM-WAVE ANTENNAS II

VARIABLE DIELECTRIC PROFILE ANTENNAS SYNTHESISVIA INVERSE SCATTERING: PRELIMINARY RESULTSO.M. Bucci, I. Catapano, L. Crocco, T. Isernia pg. 205

DESIGN AND EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONOF A MICROSTRIP REFLECTARRAYR.E. Zich, M. Mussetta, M. Tovaglieri, P. Pirinoli, M. Orefice pg. 209

PLANAR MILLIMETRE WAVE ANTENNA FOR LTCC MULTILAYERSUBSTRATE INTEGRATION IN RADAR AND COMMUNICATIONK. Schuler, Y. Venot, W. Wiesbeck pg. 213

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METHOD OF LINE ALGORITHM APPLIED TO CONFORMALMICROWAVE COMPONENTS WITH COMPLEX LOADING MEDIAA. Alu, F. Bilotti, L. Vegni pg. 217

CYLINDRICAL ARRAY ANTENNA DEMONSTRATORFOR WCDMA APPLICATIONSS. Raffaelli, M.N. Johansson, B. Johannisson pg. 221

A REACTANCE LOADED CAVITY-BACKED SQUARE-LOOPSLOT ANTENNA FOR CIRCULAR POLARIZATIONK. Hirasawa, H. Oraizi pg. 225

A NEW DERIVATION OF THE EQUIVALENT PARABOLOIDFOR CLASSICAL DUAL REFLECTOR ANTENNASF. Mazlumi, K. Barkeshli pg. 229

ULTRA-WIDE BAND MODELLING OF APERTURE ANTENNA RADIATION:A NUMERICAL-ANALYTICAL APPROACHG. Marrocco, M. Ciattaglia pg. 233

DUAL-WIDEBAND SMALL ANTENNAP. Le Thuc, R. Staraj, G. Kossiavas pg. 237

Session 8: EMC/EMI/EMP I

THE DESIGN OF A FACILITY TO ACHIEVE THE HIGHEST LEVELOF FIELD UNIFORMITY IN THE TEST VOLUMEM. D'Urso, S. Monte pg. 243

A NEW SHORT-TIME SPECTRAL ESTIMATION TECHNIQUEFOR PRECOMPLIANCE MEASUREMENTSF. Krug, P. Russer pg. 247

AN EFFECTIVE METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING COMPLEX URBANAND SUBURBAN ENVIRONMENTS AT RADIO FREQUENCYL Dosso, L. Valbonesi, R.E. Zich pg. 251

TRANSIENT RADIATION OF ULTRA WIDEBAND ANTENNASFOR RADIO LINKSW. Soergel, S. Schulteis, W. Wiesbeck pg. 257

ESTIMATION OF THE FREE-SPACE ANTENNA FACTORUSING A NONLINEAR LEAST SQUARES METHODK. Fujii, S. Harada, T. Umeda, Y Matsumoto, A. Sugiura pg. 259

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OPTIMIZATION OF METAL CASE OF A GROUNDPENETRATING RADAR ANTENNAY.A. Kirana, A.G. Yarovoy, L.P. Ligthart pg. 263

NANOLAYERED METAL-BASED FILMS FOR TRANSPARENT EM SHIELDSM.S. Sarto, M. D'Amore, F. Sarto, M.C. Larciprete, C. Sibilia,M. Bertolotti, M. Scalora pg. 267

Session 9: PLENARY SESSIONMULTI-INPUT MULTI-OUTPUT (MIMO) AND ULTRA-WIDE BAND(UWB) SYSTEMS: CHANNEL CHARACTERIZATION FORSYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGNOrganized by S. Benedetto

INFLUENCE OF RADIO PROPAGATION AND THE ELECTROMAGNETICENVIRONMENT ON THE CAPACITY OF MIMO SYSTEMSA. Burr pg. 273

UWB RADIO CHANNEL MODELLING CONSIDERATIONSJ. Kunisch, J. Pamp pg. 277

Session 10: EMC/EMI/EMP II

ANALYSIS IN A WAVELET TRANSFORMED DOMAINOF THE LIGHTNING RETURN STROKE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDA. Ageyev, E. Alfassio Grimaldi, M. Brenna, A. Gandelli, M. Merlo, R.E. Zich pg. 287

USE OF INJECTION PROBE TO SIMULATE CONDUCTIVE PARTOF RADIATED IMMUNITYF. Duval, B. Mazari pg. 291

ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION ON MULTI MICROSTRIP LINES DUETO AN EXTERNAL EM FIELD AND COUPLING FROM ADJACENT LINESM.M. Danaei, J. Rashed-Mohassel, A.L. Forootan pg. 295

ANALYSIS OF COUPLED SIGNAL VIAS WITH CIRCULARLYPOSITIONED SURROUNDING GROUND VIASM. Vahtola, T. Tarvainen pg. 299

APPLICATION AND MODELING OF VIA FENCESWITH DIFFERENT VIA DIAMETERST. Tarvainen, R. Makinen, M. Vahtola pg. 303

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ELECTROMAGNETIC CONDUCTED EMISSIONSIN DUAL VOLTAGE VEHICLE ELECTRICAL SYSTEMM.C. Di Piazza, G. Tine, G. Vitale, A. Ragusa pg. 307

Session 11: SPECIAL SESSION ON CONFORMAL ANDLARGE FINITE ARRAY ANALYSIS TECHNIQUESOrganized by J. Volakis

NUMERICALLY EFFICIENT ANALYSIS OF LARGE ARRAYAND FSS RADOME COMPOSITES WITH DISSIMILAR PERIODICITIESR. Mittra, N.-T. Huang pg. 313

FINITE ARRAY ANALYSIS USING A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL,MULTI-CELL HYBRID ARRAY DECOMPOSITION-FAST MULTIPOLE METHODR.W. Kindt, J.L. Volakis pg. 317

AIM ANALYSIS OF SLOT ARRAYS/. Rullhusen, F. Arndt pg. 321

COMPARISON OF PLANAR AND CONFORMAL ANTENNASUSING EMERGING MATERIALSL. Kempel, C. Macon, S. Schneider pg. 325

A FAST ANALYSIS OF THE RADIATION AND SCATTERINGFROM A LARGE MICROSTRIP ANTENNA ARRAYPH. Pathak, P. Janpugdee, P. Mahachoklertwattana, P. Nepa pg. 329

HOW TO ELIMINATE JITTER IN FINITE ARRAYSB. Munk, J. Pryor pg. 333

EFFICIENT ANALYSIS OF LARGE FINITE ARRAYS VIA MOMFORMULATION WITH DFT BASED ACCELERATION ALGORITHMS6. Aydin Civi. V.B. Erturk, H.T. Chou pg. 337

SURFACE AND LEAKY WAVE EXCITATION IN LARGE FINITEPERIODIC MICROSTRIP ARRAYSA. Cucini, S. Mad. pg. 341

Session 12: SPECIAL SESSION ONELECTROMAGNETIC APPLICATIONS IN ASTROPHYSICSOrganized by S. Cortiglioni, R. Tascone

MILLIMETRE-WAVE RECEIVER SYSTEM AND COMPONENT DESIGNFOR THE AUSTRALIA TELESCOPEG. Moorey, R. Gough, R. Bolton, M. Bowen, A. Dunning and H. Kanoniuk pg. 347

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PLANCK LOW FREQUENCY INSTRUMENT (LFI)70 GHZ RECEIVERS MODULESP. Sjoman, N.J. Hughes, P. Jukkala, S. Ovaska, J. Varis, J. Tuovinen pg. 351

SPORT: A MICROWAVE EXPERIMENT FOR CMB POLARIZEDEMISSION MEASUREMENTS DESIGNEDTO MINIMIZE INSTRUMENTAL POLARIZATIONE. Carretti, S. Cortiglioni, C. Macculi, C. Sbarra, J. Monari, A. Oriel, M. Poloni,S. Poppi, M. Baralis, O.A. Peverini, R. Tascone, G. Virone, M. Zannoni, G. Sironi. . pg. 355

FEED DESIGN FOR APPLICATIONS IN ASTROPHYSICSP. Bolli, E. Carretti, V. Natale, R. Nesti pg. 359

ANTENNA FEED SYSTEM FOR CORRELATION POLARIMETERSO.A. Peverini, R. Tascone, M. Baralis, G. Virone, A. Olivieri, R. Orta pg. 363

NEW SOLUTIONS ON LARGE REFLECTOR ANTENNASFOR RADIOASTRONOMICAL APPLICATIONSIN THE MICROWAVE AND MILLIMETER RANGEA. Orfei, G. Zacchiroli, J. Roda, G. Maccaferri, M. Morsiani, F. Fiocchi pg. 367

SKA: THE NEXT GENERATION RADIO TELESCOPEAND RELATED REQUIREMENTS OF STATE OF THE ARTOF LOW-COST HIGH-PERFORMANCE FRONT ENDM. Poloni, F. Perini, S. Montebugnoli, J. Monari, S. Righini pg. 371

Session 13: SPECIAL SESSION ON INTENTIONAL EMIOrganized by C. Baum

Part A. Sources (Interfering Environment)

OPTIMIZATION OF REFLECTOR IRA APERTUREFOR FILLING A RECTANGLEC.E. Baum pg. 377

SOME TOPICS CONCERNING CABLE FEEDS OF REFLECTOR IRASC.E. Baum pg. 381

UPDATE TO RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENTIN ULTRA-WIDEBAND SOURCES AND ANTENNASR. Torres, C.E. Baum, W.D. Prather, T. Tran, J.W. Burger pg. 385

FEASIBILTY OF AN IMPULSE RADIATING ANTENNA (IRA)FOR THROUGH THE WALL' SENSINGJ. Tatoian, D. Giri, R. Manzano, G. Gibbs pg. 389

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HIGH POWER MICROWAVE, RADIO FREQUENCY, AND COMPONENTDEVELOPMENT AT SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIESG.M. Loubriel, A. Mar, R.A. Salazar, L. Bacon pg. 393

Part B. Interaction of Fields with Complex Systems

THE CIRCULAR LOOP ABOVE CONDUCTING GROUND -A TRANSMISSION LINE DESCRIPTIONJ. Nitsch, S. Tkachenko pg. 401

Part C. Effects

IN-BAND DISRUPTION OF PRACTICAL NONLINEARELECTRONIC SYSTEMS VIA OPTIMAL FORCING FUNCTIONSP.D. Smith, S.M. Booker, E.D. Vinogradova, P.V Brennan, R. Bullock pg. 405

INTENTIONAL EMI APPLIED TO CIVILIAN AIRCRAFT INDUSTRYD. Dupouy pg. 409

Part D. Protection (Hardening)

COUNTERACTING PULSED INTERFERENCE IN DATA COMMUNICATIONR. Boling, I. Kohlberg pg. 413

Session 14: SPECIAL SESSION ONMETAMATERIALS: DOUBLE-NEGATIVE STRUCTURESOrganized by N. Engheta, R.W. Ziolkowski

USING RESONANCE CONE REFRACTIONFOR COMPACT RF METAMATERIAL DEVICESK. Balmain, A. Luttgen, P. Kremer pg. 419

A COMPACT DIRECTIVE ANTENNA USING ULTRAREFRACTIVEPROPERTIES OFlMETAMATERIALSG. Tayeb, S. Enoch, P. Vincent, P. Sabouroux pg. 423

MICROWAVE APPLICATIONS OF NOVEL METAMATERIALSC. Caloz, T.ltoh pg. 427

MINIATURE ANTENNA DESIGNS ON METAMATERIAL SUBSTRATESG. Kiziltas, D. Psychoudakis, J.L. Volakis, N. Kikuchi, J. Halloran pg. 431

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RESONANCES IN SUB-WAVELENGTH CYLINDRICAL STRUCTURESMADE OF PAIRS OF DOUBLE-NEGATIVE AND DOUBLE-POSITIVEOR EPSILON-NEGATIVE AND MU-NEGATIVE COAXIAL SHELLSA. Alu, N. Engheta pg. 435

NOVEL SMALL RESONANT ELECTROMAGNETIC PARTICLESFOR METAMATERIAL AND FILTER DESIGNR. Marques, J.D. Baena, etal pg. 439

RESONATORS WITH BACKWARD-WAVE SLABS:EVANESCENT MODES MEMORIZEDS.I. Maslovski, S.A. Tretyakov, I.S. Nefedov, M.K. Karkkainen pg. 443

LEAKY MODES IN PLANAR WAVEGUIDES CONTAININGDNG METAMATERIALSA.L. Topa pg. 447

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF BACKWARD META-MATERIALSIN WAVEGUIDE ENVIRONMENTS. Hrabar, J. Bartolic pg. 451

VALIDITY OF HOMOGENIZATION USING BLOCH WAVESD. Sjoberg, G. Kristensson, C. Engstrom pg. 455

TAILORING DOUBLE NEGATIVE METAMATERIAL RESPONSESTO ACHIEVE TRANSVACUUM PROPAGATION SPEEDSALONG TRANSMISSION LINESR. W. Ziolkowski, C.-Y. Cheng pg. 459

Session 15: INTEGRAL EQUATION METHODS

A NEW SERIES EXPANSION FOR THE GREEN DYADICSOF LAYERED MEDIA BASED ON PMLSF. Oiysiager pg. 465

COMPARISON AMONG CURRENTS ON SURFACES INSIDE AND NEARA SEMIELLIPTICAL CHANNEL FILLED WITH ISOREFRACTIVE MATERIALTHAT BACKS A SLOTTED PLANE: CURRENTS COMPUTEDBY ANALYTICAL FORMULAS AND BY INTEGRAL EQUATION METHODSD. Erricolo, P.L.E. Uslenghi, M.D. Lockard, CM. Butler pg. 469

A NOVEL ITERATIVE SOLUTION OF THE THREE-DIMENSIONALELECTRIC FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATIONP. Cullen pg. 475

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ANALYSIS OF CURVED MICROSTRUCTURE BENDSUSING WAVELET-BASED METHOD OF MOMENTF. Razavi, J.R. Mohassel, R.F. Dana pg. 479

WAVELETS TECHNIQUE AND SCATTERING PROBLEMS BY SCREENSP. Anyutin, A.G. Kyurkchan, V.I. Stasevich pg. 483

EFFICIENT HYBRID METHOD OF 2D PERIODIC GREEN'S FUNCTIONSAND DCIM FOR THE PERIODIC STRIPS IN LAYERED MEDIAS. Kahng, J. Choi pg. 487

ORIGINAL AND ACCURATE POLYNOMIAL INTERPOLATION METHODTO DETERMINE THE SURFACE CURRENTS WITH A MINIMUM OF KNOWNPOINTS IN THE CASE OF DIFFRACTION AND RADIATING PROBLEMSJ.P. Damiano, J.Y. Dauvignac, P. Dubois, C. Dedeban, P.Y. Garel, J.P. Zolesio . . . . pg. 491

ON THE RELATION BETWEEN THE ELECTROMAGNETIC CONTRASTAND THE SPECTRUM OF THE VOLUME INTEGRAL OPERATORN. V. Budko, A.B. Samokhin pg. 495

FULL-WAVE ANALYSIS OF PERFECTLY CONDUCTING THICK STRIPSA. Cuomo, M. Lucido, G. Panariello, F. Schettino pg. 499

Session 16: SPECIAL SESSION ONPARAMETERIZING WAVE COMPLEXITY:PROBLEM-MATCHED MULTISCALE REPRESENTATIONSOrganized by L.B. Felsen, V. Galdi

PARAMETERIZING WAVE COMPLEXITY: PROBLEM-MATCHEDMULTISCALE REPRESENTATIONSL.B. Felsen pg. 505

ELECTROMAGNETIC CHAOS: A TUTORIALI.M. Pinto pg. 511

CALCULATING THE RADAR CROSS SECTION OF ELECTRICALLYLARGE DUCTS USING RANDOM WAVES AND RAYSA. Mackay ..! pg. 515

TOWARD A FULL-WAVE-BASED ELECTROMAGNETICS APPROACHTO CHAOTIC FOOTPRINTS IN A COMPLEX DETERMINISTICENVIRONMENT: PRELIMINARY RESULTSG. Castaldi, V. Galdi, V. Pierro, I.M. Pinto, V Fiumara, L.B. Felsen pg. 519

STOCHASTIC RAYS: PRESENTATION AND APPLICATIONSG. Franceschetti, M. Franceschetti, S. Marano pg. 523

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STOCHASTIC RAYS: THE CLUTTERED ENVIRONMENTM. Franceschetti pg. 527

STOCHASTIC RAYS: THE PERCOLATIVE LATTICE ENVIRONMENTS. Marano pg. 531

MULTIRESOLUTION HOMOGENIZATION AND SCATTERINGFROM THE INTERFACE OF A MICRO-SCALE LAMINATEV. Lomakin. B.Z. Steinberg, E. Heyman pg. 535

HIGH-FREQUENCY AND MULTI-SCALE ASYMPTOTICSOF RAY-GENERATED FIELDS USING A WILSON BASIS IN PHASE-SPACEJ.M. Arnold, J.-H. Lee pg. 539

Session 17: ARRAYS

BROADBAND WIRE ARRAYSB.A. Munk, J.B. Pryor pg. 545

UNIFORM HIGH-FREQUENCY GREEN'S FUNCTION FOR A SECTORALARRAY OF ELECTRIC DIPOLES ON A GROUNDED DIELECTRIC SLABA. Polemi, D. Nencini, S. Mad, A. Toccafondi pg. 553

CONTROLLED REDUCTION OF THE NEAR FIELDIN PATTERN SYNTHESIS FOR ARBITRARY ARRAYSR. Vescovo pg. 557

MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF FINITE PHASED ARRAYSOF MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS - AN EIGENVECTOR APPROACHD.J. Bekers, S.J.L. van Eijndhoven, A.A.F. van de Ven,A.G. Tijhuis, P-P. Borsboo pg. 561

EFFECTS OF THE DIFFERENT INCIDENCE ANGLE BETWEEN FEEDAND ELEMENTS IN PRINTED REFLECTARRAYS DESIGNF. Venneri, G. Di Massa, S. Costanzo, G. Angiulli pg. 565

DIRECTION-OF-ARRIVAL ESTIMATION AND BEAMFORMINGFOR WIDEBAND SMART ANTENNAST. Do-Hong, B. Biscpntini, P. Russer, F. Demmel pg. 569

APPLICATION OF ELECTROMAGNETICALLY COUPLED COAXIALDIPOLE ARRAY ANTENNA FOR WIND PROFILING RADARH. Miyashita, K. Nishizawa, S. Makino pg. 573

SLOT-COUPLED MICROSTRIP REFLECTARRAY ANTENNASF. Venneri, S. Costanzo, G. Di Massa, G. Angiulli pg. 577

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CALCULATING FAR-FIELD PATTERNS OF LARGE ARRAYSCOMPOSED OF EQUENTIALLY ROTATED ELEMENTS :A FIRST ANALYSIS USING FDTDL. Baggen, S. Holzwarth, O. Litschke, W. Simon pg. 581

Session 18: SPECIAL SESSION ON HIGH POWERELECTROMAGNETIC THREATS AND CONSEQUENCESOrganized by D.J. Serafin

HIGH POWER ELECTROMAGNETIC THREAT AND CONSEQUENCIESD.J. Serafin, J.-C. Joly pg. 587

VIRTUAL HPM SYSTEM ASSESSMENTR.A. Perala, J.R. Elliott, S.F. Kawalko pg. 591

OVERVIEW OF WORLDWIDE HIGH POWER MICROWAVENARROW BAND FACILITIESF. Sabath, M. Backstrom etal. pg. 595

EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS ON PCB-COUPLINGIN MISSILE LIKE CYLINDRICAL STRUCTURESF. Sonnemann, R. Stark, J. Bohl pg. 599

Session 19: SPECIAL SESSION ONINNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO THE SOLUTION OF LARGEPROBLEMS IN COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICSOrganized by R. Mittra, G. Vecchi

MULTISCALE ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX ANTENNA STRUCTURESP. Pirinoli, F. Vipiana, L. Matekovits, G. Vecchi pg. 605

GENERAL MOM SOLUTIONS FOR LARGE ARRAYSB. Fasenfest, F. Capolino, D.R. Wilton, D.R. Jackson, N. Champagne pg. 609

THEORY AND APPLICATIONS OF "ADAPTIVE MBPE'IN THE FRAME OF ANTENNA DESIGN AND EMC COMPUTATIONALELECTROMAGNETIC PROBLEMSM. Bandinelli, E. Chiavaccini, D. Gabbani pg. 613

NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERINGFROM LARGE CONDUCTING BODIES BY USINGANALYTICALLY-DERIVED CHARACTERISTIC BASIS FUNCTIONSG. Tiberi, S. Rosace, A. Monorchio, G. Manara pg. 617

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A PROPOSED NEW PARADIGM FOR SOLVING SCATTERINGPROBLEMS INVOLVING ELECTRICALLY LARGE OBJECTSUSING THE CHARACTERISTIC BASIS FUNCTIONS METHOD.R. Mittra pg. 621

MODELING ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS IN LARGE, FINITE STRUCTURESUSING ITERATIVE TECHNIQUES AND THE EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLEA.G. Tijhuis, M.C. van Beurden, E. Korkmaz pg. 625

USING OF LANSCOZ AND ARNOLDI ALGORITHMS FOR TLM-ROMD. Lukashevich, P. Russer, A. Cangellaris pg. 629

MODELING AND DESIGN OF ARTIFICIAL PERFECTMAGNETIC CONDUCTORSS. Knorzer, Y. Zhang, J. von Hagen, W. Wiesbeck pg. 633

ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELLING OF ANTENNAS MOUNTEDON A BAND-GAP SLAB - DISCRETISATION ISSUES AND DOMAINAND BOUNDARY INTEGRAL EQUATIONSM.C. van Beurden, B.P. de Hon pg. 637

Session 20: SPECIAL SESSION ONMETAMATERIALS: EBG STRUCTURESOrganized by R.W. Ziolkowski and N. Engheta

(SUB)MM-WAVE COMPONENTS AND SUBSYSTEMSBASED ON PBG TECHNOLOGY/. Ederra, R. Gonzalo, C. Mann, F. van de Water, A. Moroz, P. de Maagt pg. 643

PERIODIC STRUCTURES WITH UNUSUAL EM PROPERTIESC. Caloz, A. Sanada, T. Itoh pg. 647

NUMERICAL EVALUATION AND FIELD REPRESENTATIONIN 2D PERIODIC ARTIFICIAL MATERIALS EXCITED BY A LINE SOURCEF. Capolino, D.R. Jackson, D.R. Wilton pg. 651

BAND-GAP PROPERTIES OF ARTIFICIAL SURFACESS. Mad, M. Cataletp, M. Chiazzo, A. Cucini pg. 655

DESIGN OF ARTIFICIAL MAGNETIC GROUND PLANES (AMGS)UTILIZING FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACES EMBEDDEDIN LOSSY MULTILAYER DIELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC MATERIALSJ. Yeo, R. Mittra, Ji-fu Ma pg. 659

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NEW CAPACITIVELY COUPLED RESONATOR BAND PASS FILTERSBASED ON ELECTROMAGNETIC BANDGAPSF. Martin, J. Bonache, I. Gil, F. Falcone, T. Lopetegi, M.A.G. Laso, M. Sorolla . . . . pg. 663

TUNABLE METALLODIELECTRIC ELECTROMAGNETIC BAND GAP(MEBG) STRUCTURES WITH DEFECTSC. Vardaxoglou, A. Chauraya, A.P. Feresidis, P. Maagt pg. 667

MINIATURISED METALLODIELECTRIC ELECTROMAGNETICBAND GAP STRUCTURESA.P. Feresidis, G. Apostolopoulos, G. Goussetis, J.C. Vardaxoglou pg. 671

EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS OF NON-UNIFORMPARTIALLY REFLECTIVE SURFACES FOR BEAM SHAPINGOF MICROSTRIP ANTENNASA. Hoorfar, J. Zhu, N. Engheta pg. 675

LEAKY SURFACE-PLASMON THEORY FOR DRAMATICALLYENHANCED TRANSMISSION THROUGH A SUB-WAVELENGTH APERTUREA.A. Oliner, D.R. Jackson, T. Zhao, J.T. Williams pg. 679

Session 21: INVERSE SCATTERING AND REMOTE SENSING

INVERSE SCATTERING FROM PHASELESSMEASUREMENTS OF THE TOTAL FIELDL. Crocco, M. D'Urso, T. Isernia pg. 685

LINEAR INVERSE SCATTERING APPLIED TO GPR PROSPECTING:SOME EFFECTS OF THE RADIATED POWERR. Persico, F. Soldovieri pg. 691

A MODEL ORDER REDUCTION APPROACHTO NONLINEAR EFFECTIVE INVERSIONN. V. Budko, R.F Remis pg. 695

APPLICATION OF DECONVOLUTION AND PATTERNSEARCH TECHNIQUES TO HIGH RESOLUTION GPR DATAV. Kovalenko, A. \Yarovoy, L.P.L. Ligthart pg. 699

LOCALIZED INVERSE SCATTERINGT. Melamed pg. 703

ASSESSMENT OF A NEURAL NETWORK APPROACHTO SOLVE TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICINVERSE SCATTERING PROBLEMSS. Caorsi, G. Cevini pg. 707

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3D IMAGING OF ANTENNA FIELDS AND METAL OBJECTSUSING A NEW INDIRECT HOLOGRAPHIC METHODD. Smith, M. Leach pg. 711

OUTPUT SIGNAL PREDICTION OF AN OPEN-ENDEDWAVEGUIDE PROBE WHEN SCANNING TILTED CRACKS IN METALSF. Mazlumi, S.H.H. Sadeghi, R. Moini - pg. 715

PHYSICAL MODELS FOR POLARIMETRIC SAR ANALYSISY. Shlivinski, M. Zelig, A. Sananes, E. Heyman, R. Kastner, A. Boag pg. 719

RECONSTRUCTION OF BURIED OBJECTS IN A CYLINDERWITH RESISTIVE BOUNDARYH. Sahinturk pg. 723

Session 22: RADAR CROSS SECTION ANDASYMPTOTIC TECHNIQUES

UTD AND ITD FOR PLANAR JUNCTIONS BETWEEN DIFFERENT SCREENSA. Toccafondi, R. Tiberio, A. Polemi pg. 729

EXACT SCATTERING FROM A CYLINDRICALLY-CAPPEDMETALLIC WEDGE EDGE-COATED WITH ANISOTROPIC MATERIALD. Erricolo, P.L.E. Uslenghi pg. 733

RADAR: DISTANCE AND POSITIONING MEASUREMENTSR. Zetik, J. Sachs pg. 737

THE PARABOLIC EQUATION METHOD FOR THE ELECTROMAGNETICSCATTERING FROM A WEDGE WITH CONVEX FACESS. Selleri, G. Pelosi, R.D. Graglia pg. 741

ASYMPTOTIC FORMULATIONS AND SHOOTING RAY COUPLINGFOR FAST 3-D SCATTERING FIELD EVALUATIONFROM COMPLEX OBJECTS AND ENVIRONMENT - APPLICATIONSH.J. Mametsa, S. Laybros, A. Berges, T. Volpert,P.F. Combes, P. N'Guyen, P. Pitot pg. 745

A THEORETICAL MODEL FOR ANALYZING THE RADARCROSS SECTION AND DOPPLER OF SMALL OBJECTS AT SEA,AT LOW GRAZING ANGLES, AND X-BAND FREQUENCIESE.G. Pusone, P. van Genderen, L.P. Ligthart, J.S. van Sinttruijen pg. 749

NOVEL RIGOROUS SOLUTIONS FOR SKEW INCIDENCE DIFFRACTIONBY SOME SPECIFIC CLASSES OF ANISOTROPIC IMPEDANCE HALF-AND FULL-PLANES WITH ARBITRARILY ORIENTED ANISOTROPY AXESA. Vallecchi pg. 753

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PHYSICAL OPTICS APPROXIMATION AND GAUSSIAN BEAMS ASYMPTOTICSOLUTION: A COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT METHODSOF FIELD COMPUTATION IN PRESENCE OF A DIELECTRIC WEDGEP. Grandi pg. 757

GENERALIZED WIENER-HOPF EQUATIONS FOR WEDGE PROBLEMSINVOLVING ARBITRARY LINEAR MEDIAV. Daniele, G. Lombardi pg. 761

Session 23: SPECIAL SESSION ONRF ASPECTS OF MIMO AND SMART ANTENNASOrganized by W. Wiesbeck

OPTIONS FOR THE INTEGRATION OF ARRAYS FOR MIMO INTO HANDHELDSC. Waldschmidt, C. Kuhnert, W. Sorgel, W. Wiesbeck pg. 767

INDOOR DOUBLE DIERCTIONAL MEASUREMENTSM. Beach, CM. Tan pg. 771

HOW MIMO CAPACITY IS LINKED WITH SINGLE ELEMENTFADING STATISTICSH. Ozcelik, M. Herdin, R. Prestros, E. Bonek pg. 775

MEASUREMENT-BASED PARAMETRIC CHANNEL MODELLING (MBPCM)R. Thoma, D. Hampicke, M. Landmann, A. Richter, G. Sommerkorn pg. 779

IMPACT OF THE PROPAGATION CONDITIONSON THE PROPERTIES OF MIMO CHANNELSB.H. Fleury X. Yin, A. Kocian pg. 783

SOME NOVEL TECHNIQUES FOR EFFICIENT ANALYSISOF MICROWAVE CIRCUITS AND ANTENNASJ. Yeo, R. Mittra, V. VS. Prakash pg. 787

THE ACTIVE ELEMENT PATTERN METHOD AS A RIGOROUS MEANSTO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT MUTUAL COUPLINGBETWEEN ARRAY ELEMENTS IN MIMO SYSTEMSH. Rogier, D. De Zutter pg. 791

DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA ARRAYS VERSUS COOPERATIVELINEAR RELAYING FOR BROADBAND INDOOR MIMO WIRELESSA. Wittneben, B. Rankov pg. 795

MEASUREMENTS OF EFFECTIVE, APPARENT AND ACTUALDIVERSITY GAIN OF TWO PARALLEL DIPOLESCLOSE TO A LOSSY CYLINDER IN A REVERBERATION CHAMBERP-S. Kildal, K. Rosengren pg. 799

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Session 24: SPECIAL SESSION ON ELECTRICAL ENGINEERINGEDUCATION: MECHANISMS AND MOTIVATIONOrganized by W.R. Stone

ANIMATIONS AND MOVIES IN ANTENNA LECTURESC. Kuhnert, S. Schulteis, C Waldschmidt, W. Wiesbeck pg. 805

AN UPDATE ON THE MASTER OF ENGINEERING PROGRAM AT UICD. Erricolo, R.A. Matthes, P.L.E. Uslenghi, Carolyn C Williams pg. 809

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR ELECTROMAGNETICEDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCEG. Pelosi, S. Selleri pg. 813

TEACHING ELECTROMAGNETICS:THE STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY MODELP. Meyer pg. 815

ELECTROMAGNETICS FOR THE CALCULATING STUDENTA.G. Tijhuis pg. 819

A PERSPECTIVE ON THE RECRUITMENT, RETENTIONAND EDUCATION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS IN RF ENGINEERINGJ.L. Volakis pg. 823

AUTOR INDEX pg. 825

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