Near zone scattering and extinction properties of a left handed material cylinder buried in a semi infinite medium with rough interface

ABSTRACT

A solution utilizing the spectral plane wave representation of fields (SPRF) combined with the extended boundary condition method (EBCM) is presented to study the scattering and extinction properties of a left handed material cylinder buried in a semi infinite medium with a rough interface. The EBCM is used to evaluate the field transmitted through the interface, which excites the cylinder. The SPRF is used to study the interaction of scattered field from the cylinder with the rough interface. The effect of the negative permittivity and permeability of the cylinder on the far zone scattered field is observed. Further, the near zone scattered field is investigated, which is very helpful to characterize the scenario in which object detection is a challenging task. It is also observed that the electrical size is an important factor affecting the near zone scattered field since the extinction cross section depends upon size.

KEYWORDS:

• Scattering
• radar cross section
• buried objects
• metamaterial

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

ORCID

Muhammad Arshad Fiaz http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9433-8285