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Scattering of a scalar beam from a two-dimensional randomly rough hard wall: Enhanced backscattering

P. Tran and A. A. Maradudin
Phys. Rev. B 45, 3936(R) – Published 15 February 1992
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Abstract

We have calculated numerically the scattering of a scalar beam incident normally on a large-amplitude, large-rms-slope, two-dimensonal, randomly rough, hard wall (Dirichlet boundary condition). Our result is equivalent to a fourth-order Kirchhoff approximation, and displays a well-defined peak in the retroreflection direction in the angular dependence of the intensity of the waves scattered incoherently.

  • Received 12 August 1991

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.45.3936

©1992 American Physical Society

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P. Tran and A. A. Maradudin

  • Department of Physics and Institute for Surface and Interface Science, University of California, Irvine, California 92717

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Vol. 45, Iss. 7 — 15 February 1992

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