Characteristics of electromagnetic wave transmission and reflection from isotropic plasma coated circular nihility cylinder

Theoretical investigation has been carried out to study the scattering and transmission of electromagnetic energy from isotropic plasma coated circular nihility cylinder. The physical modeling of the problem is done in frame work of classical scattering theory. All the fields are expanded in terms of cylindrical vector wave functions (CVWFs). The analytical as well as numerical solution for both Transverse Electric (TE) and Transverse Magnetic (TM) polarizations is presented. The unknown scattering coefficients are computed by implementing the boundary conditions at each interface (free space/plasma and plasma/nihility). The influence of plasma parameters i.e., plasma density (N-D) and effective collision frequency (v) on the bistatic echo width is analyzed and it is concluded that the plasma coating can be used to control and tune the scattering amplitude. Further it is also concluded that for the case w > w(p) the scattering amplitude is much less than for the case w < w(p). Under special conditions, the results of present work compared with the published literature and good agreement is found. (C) 2019 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).