International Journal of Antennas and Propagation
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 854647, 7 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/854647
Research Article
Solving Scattering from Conducting Body Coated by Thin-Layer Material by Hybrid Shell Vector Element with Boundary Integral Method
School of Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
Received 25 October 2011; Accepted 3 February 2012
Academic Editor: Ahmed A. Kishk
Copyright © 2012 Lin Lei et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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