%0 Journal Article %T On Examining the Influence of a Thin Dielectric Strip Posed Across the Diameter of a Penetrable Radiating Cylinder %A Constantinos A. Valagiannopoulos %J PIER C %D 2008 %I EMW Publishing %R 10.2528/PIERC08042906 %X A thin rectangular dielectric strip is located along the horizontal diameter of a penetrable rod, while the whole structure is illuminated by a plane wave at an arbitrary angle. The unknown field on the slab-sided scatterer is determined by dividing it into a large number of square pixels and thus the problem is solved via analytical integration. A quantity expressing the effect of the strip in the far region is defined and graphically represented with respect to the problem parameters. The attached diagrams are examined and discussed. %U http://www.jpier.org/pierc/pier.php?paper=08042906