Electromagnetic Scattering Theory and Its Applications
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 14866
Special Issue Editors
Interests: electromagnetic propagation; electromagnetic modeling; microwave remote sensing and electromagnetics; SAR signal processing and simulation; information retrieval from SAR data
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Interests: microwave remote sensing and electromagnetics; SAR and GNSS-R signal processing and simulation; information retrieval from SAR and GNSS-R data; radio-wave propagation; electromagnetic scattering in natural and urban environments
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent technological advances in our everyday life strongly rely on a massive and immersive use of electrical and electronic devices. To fully exploit the potential of such systems, it is crucial to analyze the propagation and scattering phenomena of electromagnetic (EM) waves at any frequency, ranging from static and quasi-static regimes to optical wavelengths and even beyond. As a matter of fact, an adequate understanding of the scattering mechanisms of EM waves is beneficial in contexts as diverse as digital communications, safety and security, and the global economy. In fact, Earth observation, next-gen communication networks, medicine, and industry are now heavily influenced by Maxwell equations.
The exact solution of Maxwell’s equations is viable in few canonical problems, which do not provide a satisfactory modeling of the scattering problem in most engineering and physical applications. Thanks to the increasing availability of computational resources, numerical full-wave techniques, such as the method of moments, the finite-difference time-domain method, and the finite element method, or efficient asymptotic methods based on ray-tracing and ray-launching techniques, are now successfully applied to evaluate the scattered field from electrically large structures. However, such methods can hardly support an adequate assessment of the parameters’ influence on the electromagnetic field level. This is of interest in inverse scattering problems and information retrieval procedures. In such cases, it is relevant to provide closed-form expressions directly relating the parameters of interest to the scattered field. Moreover, the current trend in exploring higher and higher frequencies—from millimeter to Terahertz and even beyond—such as in 5G, metamaterials, and optical communications, calls for a refined stochastic description of the scattering surfaces roughness.
This Special Issue is then aimed at providing insight and addressing recent breakthroughs in the wide field of scattering of EM waves as well as investigating innovative solutions and approaches to scattering problems in different scenarios. We invite both experimentalists and theorists to submit their high-quality manuscripts for publication in this Special Issue.
The topics of interests include but are not limited to:
- Development of analytical, statistical, empirical scattering models
- Measurements of scattered electromagnetic waves and radar cross-section
- Algorithms for the evaluation of the EM scattering
- Scattering models in remote sensing
- Surface and volume scattering
- Models, methods and tools for inverse scattering
- Metamaterials, metasurfaces and plasmonics
- RFID technologies
- Radiowave and Terahertz propagation
- Scattering in electronic circuits
- Guided propagation
- Scattering from humans and objects
- Scattering in biomedical applications
- Electromagnetic compatibility
- Numerical methods for EM scattering
Dr. Gerardo Di Martino
Dr. Alessio Di Simone
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Modeling, simulation and measurements
- Microwave remote sensing
- Surface and volume scattering
- Inverse scattering
- Metamaterials
- RFID
- Radar
- Polarimetry
- Radiative transfer theory
- Mm-wave and Terahertz
- Rayleigh scattering
- Electromagnetic compatibility
- Computational electromagnetics
