Plane wave solutions for right-angled interior impedance wedges

[2] The impedance boundary condition [Senior and Volakis, 1995] is a convenient tool for simulating the material properties of a surface. For most materials the surface impedance is a scalar, but there are materials whose properties are anisotropic for which a tensor impedance is required. The simplest cases are those for which the tensors are diagonal but recent work with metamaterials has made possible the creation of very general materials for which the tensor may be nondiagonal. These are the focus of the present study. [3] The problem considered is a plane electromagnetic wave incident on the interior of a right-angled impedance wedge. This is a geometry that is relevant to the analysis of finitely conducting waveguides and resonators as well as to the propagation of radio waves inside buildings. In general the solution consists of plane waves reflected off the two faces of the wedge and a diffracted field associated with the vertex, but if the surface impedances satisfy certain restrictions the diffracted field disappears. The exact solution is then the sum of four plane waves, one of which is the incident field. We seek the restrictions on the impedances for which this is so, and follow a procedure similar to that by Senior [1978]. 2. Formulation