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Electromagnetic scattering from a two-dimensional groove recessed in an arbitrarily thick conducting screen is studied. The groove may be empty or loaded with a lossy material which may or may not completely fill the cavity. For the partially loaded groove, the filling material is assumed electrically dense so that the standard impedance boundary condition is applicable at the top surface of the material. Employing a full-wave analysis, integral equations are derived for the tangential components of the electric field over the aperture. It is shown that the equations are identical for both partially loaded and completely loaded (or empty) cases provided that the aperture admittance of the groove is treated as the equivalent admittance of the internal medium looking into the aperture, thus simplifying the integral equations.
When the groove is completely filled by a dense material, the formulation reduces to that corresponding to a direct application of the impedance boundary condition over the aperture.
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Barkeshli, K. Scattering from loaded grooves. Int J Infrared Milli Waves 13, 171–196 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01010652
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