CANONICAL TIME-DOMAIN SOLUTION OF MAXWELL S EQUATIONS IN LOSSY MEDIA

Maxwell's equations are analytically solved in time domain for one-dim ensional plane TEM-waves in lossy, homogeneous and linear media with R iemann's method. The calculated closed form fundamental solutions for both electric and magnetic fields are formulated for arbitrary wave sh apes, up to impulse waves, which is one advantage over the well known frequency domain solutions. In addition to this they give more insight to the physical understanding of wave propagation in lossy media. The se fundamental solutions are very well suited to examine the reflectio n and transmission properties of layered lossy media in time domain, b ecause they are solutions of a characteristic initial Value problem.