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Martin Plonus
Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

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  1. "Magnetostriction and Mechanical Filters", Illinois Technograph, Vol. 72, no. 6, pp. 73- 76, March 1957.
  2. "Backscattering from a Conducting Cylinder with a Surrounding Shell", Can. J. Phys., Vol. 38, pp. 1665-1676, December 1960.
  3. "Diffraction of the Plane Wave by a Perfectly Conducting Sphere with a Concentric Shell", IRE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. AP-9, pp. 573-576, November 1961.
  4. "Electromagnetic Radiation from a Cylindrically Capped Bi-Wedge", IRE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. AP-10, pp. 206-210, March 1962.
  5. "Comments on Diffraction of a Plane Wave by a Perfectly Conducting Sphere with a Concentric Shell", IRE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. AP-10, p. 345, May 1962.
  6. "Application of Selective Mode Coupling in the Solution to Biconical Antennas", Proc. Symp. on Electromagnetic Theory and Antennas, pp. 1155-1166, Pergamon Press, New York, N. Y., 1963.
  7. "The Behavior of Fields near Mountains", Proc. Natl. Elec. Conf., Vol. 19, pp. 33-38, October 1963.
  8. "Backscattering from Cellular Materials:, Int. Conf. Microwaves, Circuit Theory and Information Theory--Part 1, Microwaves, Inst. Elec. Comm. Eng., Japan, p. 319-320, September 1964.
  9. "A New Reflection Coefficient for Low Density Dielectrics", Proc. Natl. Elec. Conf., Vol. 20, pp. 14-16, October 1964.
  10. "Designing Foamed-Plastic Target Supports", with T. B. A. Senior, E. F. Knott, Microwaves, Vol. 3, no. 12, pp. 38-43, December 1964.
  11. "Theoretical Investigations of Scattering from Plastic Foams", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. AP-13, pp. 88-94, January 1965.
  12. "Closed Form Expression for the Mie Series for Large, Low Density Dielectric Spheres, Proc. IEEE, Vol. 53, pp. 662-663, June 1965.
  13. "Equivalence Relations for Echo Areas of Dielectric Solid Cylinders and Cylindrical Shells", Can. J. Phys., Vol. 43, pp. 1683-1685, September 1965.
  14. "Scattering from Low Density Dielectric Bodies by the Coherent Scattering Integral Method", URSI Symposium on Electromagnetic Wave Theory Abstracts, Delft, The Netherlands, September 1965.
  15. "On the Impedance of a Finite Slot", IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 14, pp. 48-49, January 1966.
  16. "Note on a Closed Form Expression for the Mie Series for Large, Low Density Dielectric Spheres", with J. Rhenstein, M. Rockowitz and H. Inada, Proc. IEEE, Vol. 54, pp. 436- 437, March 1966.
  17. "Plane Wave Diffraction from a Small Half-Sphere Mounted on a Large Conducting Body", Proc. IEEE, Vol. 55, pp. 214-216, February 1967.
  18. "Scattering form Low Density Dielectric Bodies", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. AP-15, pp. 437-441, May 1967.
  19. "Scattering from a Half-Loop on an Infinite Perfectly Conducting Plane", Can. J. Phys., Vol. 45, pp. 3347-3355, October 1967.
  20. "Advances in Microwaves", Invited book review, Applied Optics, pp. 2175, 2178, 2200, December 1967.
  21. "Diffraction by a Right-Angled Dielectric Wedge" with N. Kuo, Jour. Math. and Phys., Vol. 46, pp. 394-407, December 1967.
  22. "Scattering form Resonant Slots on a Semi-Infinite Cone", with R. F. Goodrich, Radio Science, Vol. 2, pp. 1437-1447, December 1967.
  23. "A Truncated Cone Model Support for Anechoic Chambers", with E. F. Knott and N. Kuo, IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. AP-16, pp. 256-258, March 1968.
  24. "Electromagnetic Scattering by Slots on a Sphere", Proc. IEEE(London), Vol. 115, pp. 622-626, May 1968.
  25. "Ultrasound Camera System for Viewing Acoustical Holograms", Proc. IEEE, Vol. 56, pp. 1134-1136, June 1968.
  26. "On the Wiener-Hopf Technique in Two Complex Variables", Int. Symp. URSI and IEEE G-AP Digest, Boston, MA., p. 93, September 1968.
  27. "Numerical Results for Backscattering from Large, High-Density Dielectric Spheres", with Inada, Proc. IEEE, Vol. 57, pp. 1192-1193, June 1969.
  28. "Surface Wave Contributions to the Backscattering from Large, High-Density Dielectric Spheres", Proc. Conf. on Environmental Effects on Antenna Performance, ESSA, Boulder, CO, Vol. II, pp. 73-75, June 1969.
  29. "The Geometric Optics Contribution to the Scattering from a Large Dense Dielectric Sphere", with H. Inada, IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. AP-18, pp. 89- 99, January 1970.
  30. "The Diffracted Field Contribution to the Scattering from a Large Dense Dielectric Spheres", with H. Inada, IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. AP-18, pp. 648- 660, September 1970.
  31. "Ultrasound Diffraction by a Ripple Pattern on a Liquid Surface", IEEE Trans. on Sonics and Ultrasonics, Vol. SU-18, pp. 28-30, January 1971.
  32. "Optical-Pulse Propagation in a Turbulent Medium", with H. H. Su, Journal Optical Soc. of America, Vol. 61, pp. 256-260, February 1971.
  33. "Pulse Return from a Low-Density Dielectric Cylinder", Radio Science Vol. 6, pp. 511- 515, April 1971.
  34. "Pulse Scattering from Dielectric Objects", Proc. 1971 European Microwave Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, August 1971.
  35. "Backscattering of Plane Wave Pulses by Low-Density Dielectric Bodies", Proc. 1971 Symp. on Antennas and Propagation, Sendai, Japan, p. 187, September 1971.
  36. "Correlations for Optical Pulses in a Turbulent Atmosphere", with H. H. Su, Proc. 1971 Electro-Optical Systems Design Conference, New York, NY, pp. 324-331, September 1971.
  37. "Mean-Square Fluctuations for Pulse Propagation in a Turbulent Medium", with H. H. Su, Digest of 1971 URSI/G-AP Int. Symposium, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, p. 23, September 1971.
  38. "Plane Wave Pulse Backscattering from a Low-Density Dielectric Sphere", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. AP-20, pp. 214-216, March 1972.
  39. "Correlation and Structure Functions for Pulse Propagation in a Turbulent Atmosphere", with H. H. Su, IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. AP-20, pp. 801-805, November 1972.
  40. "Pulsed Spherical Wave Propagation in a Turbulent Atmosphere", with C. S. Gardner, Digest 1972 URSI/G-AP Int. Symposium, Williamsburg, VA, p. 354, December 1972.
  41. "Satellite to Earth Optical Communication Through the Turbulent Atmosphere", with C. S. Gardner and F. Kavala, Digest 1973 URSI/G-AP Int. Symposium, University of Colorado, Boulder, August 1973, pp. 16-17.
  42. "Optical Pulses in Atmospheric Turbulence", with C. S. Gardner, Journal Optical Soc. of America, Vol. 64. pp. 68-77, January 1974.
  43. "Temporal Frequency Spectrum of Multifrequency Beam Waves in the Turbulent Atmosphere", with F. Kavala, Digest 1974 URSI/AP-S Int. Symposium, Georgia Inst. of Tech., Atlanta, GA, p. 7, June 1974.
  44. "The Effects of Atmospheric Turbulence on the Propagation of Pulsed Laser Beams" (invited paper) with C. S. Gardner, Radio Science, Vol. 10, pp. 129-137, January 1975.
  45. "A Comparison of Geometrical and Physical Diffraction Techniques for Backscattering from a Cylindrically Curved Plate", with R. Williams, Digest 1975 URSI/IEEE Ap-S Int. Symposium, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, p. 60, June 1975.
  46. "Fluctuations of a Pulsed Wave Propagating Through Finite, Homogeneous Turbulence", with C. S. Gardner and F. Kavala, IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. AP- 23, pp. 671-674, September 1975.
  47. "Ignitability of Anechoic Chamber Foam by Electric Currents", Proc. IEEE, Vol. 63, p. 1371, September 1975.
  48. "Propagation in Random Media with Stationary Temporal Fluctuations", with C. S. Gardner and F. Kavala, Radio Science, Vol. 10, pp. 979-988, November 1975.
  49. "Two-Frequency Mutual Coherence Function of Plane Waves in Strongly Turbulent Media", with S. C. H. Wang, Digest 1976 URSI/IEEE AP-S Intl. Symposium, U. of Mass., Amherst, MA, pp. 592-593, October 1976.
  50. "Radar Cross Section of Curved Plates Using Geometrical and Physical Diffraction Techniques", with S. C. H. Wang and R. Williams, IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. AP-26, pp. 488-493, May 1978.
  51. Applied Electromagnetics, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1978, 615 pages.
  52. "Irradiance Scintillations of a Partially Coherent Source in Extremely Strong Turbulence", with S. C. H. Wang and C. F. Ouyang, Applied Optics, Vol. 18, pp. 1133-1135, 15 April 1979.
  53. "Optical Beam Propagation of a Partially Coherent Source in the Turbulent Atmosphere", Digest 1979 URSI/IEEE AP-S Intl. Symposium, U. of Washington, Seattle, WA, pp. 319- 322, June 1979.
  54. "Optical Beam Propagation for a Partially Coherent Source in the Turbulent Atmosphere", with S. C. H. Wang, Journal Optical Society of America, Vol. 69, pp. 1297-1304, September 1979.
  55. "Transmission and Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves", American Scientist, Vol. 68, p. 100, January/February 1980. (invited book review)
  56. "Intensity Propagation of Partially Coherent Optical Radiation in Atmospheric Turbulence", Proceedings 1980 Intl. URSI Symposium on Electromagnetic Waves, Munich, Germany, pp. 214C 1-4, August 26-29, 1980.
  57. "Intensity Properties of Partially Coherent Beam Waves", with C. F. Ouyang and S.C.H. Wang, Applied Optics, Vol. 19, pp. 3082-3085, 15 September 1980.
  58. "Two-Source, Two-Frequency Spherical Wave Structure Functions in Atmospheric Turbulence", with Y. Baykal, J. Opt. Soc. Amer., Vol. 70, pp. 1278-1279, October 1980.
  59. "Atmospheric Transmittance: Improvement of LOWTRAN Prediction by Incorporating Turbulence Effects", with C. F. Ouyang and S-J Wang, Applied Optics, Vol. 20, pp. 786- 790, 1 March 1981.
  60. "Scintillation Index for a Temporally Partially Coherent, Spherical Wave Light Source in Weak Turbulence", with Y. Baykal and C. F. Ouyang, Radio Science, Vol. 16, pp. 343-345, May-June, 1981.
  61. "Transmitter and Receiver Aperture Averaging Effect for the Intensity Fluctuations of a Beam Wave in the Turbulent Atmosphere", with Y. Baykal and C. F. Ouyang, Digest 1981 URSI/IEEE AP-S Intl. Symposium, Los Angeles, CA, p. 108, June 16-19, 1981.
  62. "Frequency Averaging for Beam Waves in Weak and Very Strong Turbulence", with Y. Baykal, IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. AP-30, pp. 802-805, July 1982.
  63. "Propagation of Partially Coherent Radiation Through Atmospheric Turbulence", (invited) with Y. Baykal and S. J. Wang, 1982 OSA Meeting, Tucson, AZ, October 18-22, 1982, J. Opt. Soc. Am., 72, p. 1810, December, 1982.
  64. "Effect of Source Partial Coherence on the Intensity Fluctuations in Atmospheric Turbulence", with Y. Baykal and S. J. Wang, 1982 OSA Meeting, Tucson, AZ, October 18-22, 1982, J. Opt. Soc. Am., 72, p. 1810, December, 1982.
  65. "The Coherence of the Source in Laser Beam Propagation", (invited) with Y. Baykal and S. J. Wang, Digest, 1983 OSA Topical Meeting on Optical Techniques for Remote Probing of the Atmosphere, Incline Village, NV, pp. (TU-C17) 1-4, January 1983.
  66. "Effect of Source Statistics on the Irradiance Scintillation in Turbulence", (invited) with S. J. Wang, Proc. SPIE-Laser Beam Propagation in the Atmosphere, Vol. 410, pp. 73-80, April 1983.
  67. "Receiver Aperture Averaging Effects for the Intensity Fluctuations of a Beam Wave in the Turbulent Atmosphere", with S. J. Wang and Y. Baykal, J. Opt. Soc. Am., Vol. 73, pp. 831-837, June 1983.
  68. "The Scintillations for Weak Atmospheric Turbulence Using a Partially Coherent Source", with Y. Baykal and S. J. Wang, Radio Science, Vol. 18, pp. 551-556, July-August 1983.
  69. "Imaging Through Turbulence: Degradation of Signal-to-Noise Ratio", with S. J. Wang, Optics Communications, Vol. 50, pp. 73-78, May 1984.
  70. "Quadratic Structure Functions and Scintillations", with S. J. Wang, Applied Optics, Vol. 24, February 1985, p.p. 570-571.
  71. "Intensity Fluctuations due to a Spatially partially Coherent Source in Atmospheric Turbulence as Predicted by Rytov's Method", with Y. Baykal, Special Issue on Wave Propagation and Scattering in Random Media, Journal of Opt. Soc. Am., A, Vol. 2, December 1985, pp. 2124-2132.
  72. "Spatial Coherence Properties of Planar Antennas", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. AP-39, pp. 892-897, July 1991.
  73. "Imaging After Double Passage Through a Turbulent Medium", with C-C. Yang and B. H. Elsebelgy, Optics Letters, Vol. 18, No. 24, pp. 2087-2089, December 15, 1993.
  74. "Superresloution Effects in Weak Turbulence", with C-C. Yang, Applied Optics, Vol 32, No. 36, pp. 7528-7531, 20 December 1993.
  75. "Effect of Source Temporal Coherence on Optical Transfer Function in Weak Turbulence", with C-C. Yang, Applied Optics, Vol. 33, No. 9, pp. 1771-1775, 20 March 1994.
  76. "Effect of Turbulence on the Formulation of Gaussian Image and Signal-To-Noise Ratio", with C-C Yang and B.H. Elsebelgy, SPIE Proc., vol. 2222, pp. 595-604, April 1994.
  77. "Superresolution Image in Weak Turbulence", with C-C Yang and B.H. Elsebelgy, SPIE Proc., vol. 2222, pp. 605-610, April 1994.
  78. "Numerical Integration Using Belzier Splines", with S. Balkir and M. Yanilmaz, IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided Design in Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp.737-745, June 1994.
  79. "Effects of a Random Phase Screen on the Performance of an Imaging System", with C-C Yang, Optic Letters, Vol. 19, No. 14, pp.1073-1075, July 15, 1994.
  80. "Isoplanatic and Anisoplanic Imaging Through Turbulence", with C-C Yang, SPIE Proc., vol. 2312, pp. 162-168, Sept., 1994.
  81. "Double Passage Imaging of an Object Behind a Random Medium", with B. H. Elsebelgy, C-C Yang, Journal of Opt. Soc. Am., A, Vol. 12, pp. 307-313, February, 1995.
  82. "Double Passage Imaging Through a Random Phase Screen Using Coherent Illumination," with B.H. Elsebelgy and D.R. Gerwe, SPIE Proc.,Vol.2580, pp. 213-226, European Symposium on Satellite Remote Sensing, Paris, France, Sept., 1995.
  83. "Long Exposure Imaging Through Weak Turbulence," with D.R. Gerwe and B.H. Elsebelgy, SPIE Proc, vol.2580, pp 226-239, European Symposium on Satellite Remote Sensing, Paris, France, Sept., 1995.
  84. "Speckle Imaging of Coherent Sources", with D.R. Gerwe and B.H. Elsebelgy, Laser Radar Technology and Applications, SPIE Proc., vol.2748,pp. 258-271, April 1996.
  85. "Double Passage Imaging through a Random Phase Screen", with B.H. Elsebelgy and D.R. Gerwe,Journal of Opt. Soc. Am., A, vol.14, No.8, pp.1872-1879, August 1997.
  86. "Image Restoration of Multiple Noisy Images by use of A Priory   Knowledge of the Anisoplanatic Point Spread Function", with D. R. Gerwe, Optics Letters, vol.23, No.2,pp.83-85,Jan15,1998 .
  87. "Superresolved Image Reconstruction of Images taken through the Turbulent Atmosphere", with D.R.Gerwe,Journal of Opt. Soc. Am., A, vol.15, No.10,pp.2620-2628, October 1998.
  88. "Electronics and Communications for Engineers and Scientists", Harcourt/Academic Press, San Diego, 2001, 415 pages.

 
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