THE EXTINCTION EFFICIENCY OF A PERFECTLY CONDUCTING SPHERE EMBEDDED IN AN ABSORBING MEDIUM - THE ASYMPTOTIC VALUE

Authors
WYMER SA LAKHTAKIA A
Citation
Sa. Wymer et A. Lakhtakia, THE EXTINCTION EFFICIENCY OF A PERFECTLY CONDUCTING SPHERE EMBEDDED IN AN ABSORBING MEDIUM - THE ASYMPTOTIC VALUE, Journal of physics. D, Applied physics, 28(7), 1995, pp. 1285-1286
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied
Journal title
Journal of physics. D, Applied physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00223727
Volume
28
Issue
7
Year of publication
1995
Pages
1285 - 1286
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-3727(1995)28:7<1285:TEEOAP>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
We have observed from numerical work that the extinction efficiency of a perfectly conducting sphere goes to 2 as the size parameter increas es, regardless of whether the embedding medium is absorbing or lossles s.