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Abstract

In this paper, the higher order hierarchical basis functions are employed to solve the electric field integral equation for computing electromagnetic scattering from three-dimension bodies comprising both conducting and dielectric objects. In higher-order methods of moments (HO-MoM), the equivalent surface electric and magnetic currents are usually expanded by the same basis functions, which are not appropriate in our problem here. The pointwise orthogonal basis functions respectively for electric and magnetic currents are proposed in our improved HO-MoM. Quadrilateral patches are used in curvilinear geometry modeling since they result in the lowest number of unknowns. Numerical solution procedure is particularly analyzed, and numerical results are given for various structures and compared with other available data lastly.

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