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Original Articles

Theoretical study of the Kirchhoff integral from a two-dimensional randomly rough surface with shadowing effect: application to the backscattering coefficient for a perfectly-conducting surface

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Pages 91-118 | Received 30 Oct 2000, Published online: 19 Aug 2006

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