Microwave Engineering

Lecture # 6

 Plane Wave Reflection From a Media Interface

 General Medium
 Lossless Medium
 Good Conductor
 Perfect Conductor
 Oblique Incidence at a Dielectric Interface
 Parallel Polarization
Electromagnetic Energy Flow and the Poynting Vector
Flow of Electromagnetic Energy and Poynting's Theorem

Poynting’s Theorem: Power Balance Equation

Power Flow Inside or Outside of Volume
=
Rate of Change of Stored Energy + Power Dissipated

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 Plane Wave Reflection From a Media
Interface:
 A number of problems to be considered involve the behavior of electromagnetic fields
at the interface of various types of media, including lossless media, lossy media, a
good conductor, or a perfect conductor,
 and so it is beneficial at this time to study the reflection of a plane wave normally
incident from free-space onto a half-space of an arbitrary material.

 The geometry is shown in Figure, where

the material half-space z > 0 is
characterized by the parameters 𝝐, µ,
and σ.

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Lecture # 6
 Plane Wave Reflection From a Media Interface
 General Medium
 Lossless Medium
 Good Conductor
 Perfect Conductor
 Oblique Incidence at a Dielectric Interface
 Parallel Polarization
 Plane Wave Reflection From a Media
Interface: General Medium
 We can assume that the incident
plane wave has an electric field
vector oriented along the x-axis
and is propagating along the
positive z-axis. The incident
 The fields can then be written, for z
< 0, as

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Interface: General Medium

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Interface: General Medium

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Lecture # 6
 Plane Wave Reflection From a Media Interface
 General Medium
 Lossless Medium
 Good Conductor
 Perfect Conductor
 Oblique Incidence at a Dielectric Interface
 Parallel Polarization
Plane Wave Reflection From a Media
Interface: Lossless Medium

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Interface: Lossless Medium

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Interface: Lossless Medium

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Interface: Lossless Medium

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Lecture # 6
 Plane Wave Reflection From a Media Interface
 General Medium
 Lossless Medium
 Good Conductor
 Perfect Conductor
 Oblique Incidence at a Dielectric Interface
 Parallel Polarization
Plane Wave Reflection From a Media
Interface: Good Conductor
 Notice that 𝑆ҧ + , the power density in the lossy
conductor, decays exponentially according to
the 𝑒 −2αz attenuation factor.
 This means that power is being dissipated in
the lossy material as the wave propagates
into the medium in the +z direction.

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Interface: Good Conductor

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Lecture # 6
 Plane Wave Reflection From a Media Interface
 General Medium
 Lossless Medium
 Good Conductor
 Perfect Conductor
 Oblique Incidence at a Dielectric Interface
 Parallel Polarization
Plane Wave Reflection From a Media
Interface: Perfect Conductor

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Interface: Perfect Conductor

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Lecture # 6
 Plane Wave Reflection From a Media Interface
 General Medium
 Lossless Medium
 Good Conductor
 Perfect Conductor
 Oblique Incidence at a Dielectric Interface
 Parallel Polarization
Oblique Incidence at a Dielectric Interface:
Parallel Polarization
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Oblique Incidence at a Dielectric Interface:
Parallel Polarization
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Oblique Incidence at a Dielectric Interface:
Parallel Polarization
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