Complex natural resonances of conducting planar objects buried in a dielectric half-space

A scheme is presented to incorporate a mixed potential integral equation (MPIE) using Michalski's "formulation C" with the method of moments (MoM) for analyzing the scattering of a plane wave from conducting planar objects buried in a dielectric half-space. The robust complex image method with a two-level approximation is used for the calculation of the Green's functions for the half-space. To further speed up the computation, an interpolation technique for filling the matrix is employed. While the induced current distributions on the object's surface are obtained in the frequency domain, the corresponding time domain responses are calculated via the inverse fast Fourier transform (FFT). The complex natural resonances of targets are then extracted from the late time response using the generalized pencil-of-function (GPOF) method. The authors investigate the pole trajectories as they vary the distance between strips and the depth and orientation of single, buried strips. The variation from the pole position of a single strip in a homogeneous dielectric medium was only a few percent for most of these parameter variations.