Scattering of electromagnetic plane wave from a perfect electric conducting strip located in topological insulator medium

Abstract

In this article, scattering from a perfectly electric conducting strip located in an infinitely extended topological insulator (IT) medium is investigated using the Kobayashi potential method. For solving mixed boundary value problem, KP method is a fast and semi-analytical technique. In this method, edge conditions and boundary conditions are incorporated simultaneously. The scattered field is calculated from the strip geometry embedded in IT medium. The far zone scattered field is investigated with respect to different parameters of the geometry, i.e. topological parameter of the IT medium, size of the strip etc. It has been observed that the scattered field can be enhanced by increasing topological parameter of the IT medium. On the other hand, size of strip, permittivity of IT medium may also be used to enhance the main lobe of the scattering width/scattered field.

Keywords:

• Kobayashi potential
• scattering and diffraction
• topological insulator

Notes

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