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EM Modeling of surfaces with STOP or GO characteristics - artificial magnetic conductors and soft and hard surfaces

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In this article, the authors discuss and demonstrate the relation between electromagnetic bandgap surfaces (EBG) used to realize artificial magnetic conductors and the so-called soft and hard surfaces in electromagnetics, with respect to their STOP and GO characteristics for surface waves.
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We discuss and demonstrate by measurements and computations the relation between electromagnetic bandgap surfaces (EBG) used to realize artificial magnetic conductors and the so-called soft and hard surfaces in electromagnetics, with respect to their STOP and GO characteristics for surface waves. We show how the main characteristics of such surfaces can be modeled by using ideal surfaces representing perfect magnetic conductors (PMC) and PEC/PMC strip grids. Unfortunately, commercial codes do not allow such modeling for general shapes of the surfaces.

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