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Diffraction Theory 50 Years of Achievements in GTD PTD Etc
Diffraction Theory 50 Years of Achievements in GTD PTD Etc
Diffraction Theory:
50 Years of Achievements in
GTD, PTD, and Related Approaches
Giuseppe Pelosi1,Yahya Rahmat-Samii2, and John L. Volakis3
University of Florence
Via di Santa Marta 3, I-50134 Florence, Italy
E-mail: giuseppe.pelosi@uni.it
2
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
University of California
Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
E-mail: rahmat@ee.ucla.edu
3
ElectroScience Laboratory, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43212 USA
E-mail: volakis@ece.osu.edu
entific works: the paper by The cover image of this issue of the IEEE Antennas and
Propagation Magazine, repeated in Figure 1, collects people
J. B. Keller, Geometrical Theory of Diffraction, who made major contributions to electromagnetic scattering.
Journal of the Optical Society of America, 52, 1962, We have only included scientists and engineers who have
pp. 116-130; passed away. Clearly, this is a personal selection, necessarily
incomplete due to the limited size of the cover. Some of these
and the book by were awarded the Nobel prize, and they are indicated with the
golden Nobel medal and the relative year. Maxwell is shown
P. Ya. Ufimtsev, Method of Edge Waves in the with a red border, since his 1864 paper was the turning point
Physical Theory of Diffraction, Moscow, Soviet at which a full, complete, mathematical theory of electromag-
Radio, 1962 (in Russian). netism was finally available.
The papers constituting the special section are numerous, due It is worth remembering that this is not the only event
to the relevance of the topic, and they hence needed to be split celebrating such a remembrance. Besides the present special
between two issues of the Magazine. In this issue, we have section, which required quite a long preparation, there was a
special session (organized by Rahmat-Samii and Volakis) at
P. Ya. Ufimtsev, The 50-Year Anniversary of the the International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced
PTD: Comments on the PTDs Origin and Devel- Applications (ICEAA), held in Cape Town, South Africa,
opment September 2011. Those papers are available on IEEEXplore.
Y. Rahmat-Samii, GTD, UTD, UAT, and STD: A We sincerely hope that this special section will serve
Historical Revisit and Personal Observations both seasoned researchers and newcomers dealing with the
fascinating topics in high-frequency electromagnetic diffrac-
G. Pelosi and S. Selleri, The Wedge-Type Problem: tion.
The Building Brick in High-Frequency Scattering
from Complex Objects
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