Material Surface Design to Counter Electromagnetic Interrogation of Targets

Utilization of controllable ferromagnetic layers coating a conducting object to provide an attenuation capability against electromagnetic interrogation is discussed. The problem is formulated as a differential game and/or a robust optimization. The scattered field due to interrogation can be attenuated with the assumption of an uncertainty in the interrogation wave numbers. The controllable layer composed of ferromagnetic materials [H. How and C. Vittoria, Implementation of Microwave Active Nulling, private communication; H. How and C. Vittoria, IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., 52 (2004), pp. 2177-2182] is incorporated in a mathematical formulation based on the time-harmonic Maxwell equation. Fresnel's law for the reflectance index is extended to the electromagnetic propagation in anisotropic composite layers of ferromagnetic and electronic devices and is used to demonstrate feasibility of control of reflections. Our methodology is also tested for a nonplanar geometry of the conducting object (an NACA ...

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