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In this paper, the Wiener-Hopf technique is used to analyze the plane wave diffraction rigorously by a semi-infinite parallel-plate waveguide with five-layer material loading for E polarization. Introducing the Fourier transform of the unknown scattered field and applying boundary conditions in the transform domain, the problem is formulated in terms of the simultaneous Wiener-Hopf equations satisfied by unknown spectral functions. The Wiener-Hopf equations are solved exactly via the factorization and decomposition procedures leading to exact and approximate solutions. Taking the Fourier inverse of the solution in the transform domain, the scattered field in the real space is explicitly derived. For the region inside the waveguide, the scattered field is expressed in terms of the waveguide TE modes, whereas the field outside the waveguide is evaluated asymptotically with the aid of the saddle point method leading to a far field expression. Numerical examples of the radar cross section (RCS) are presented for various physical parameters and farfield scattering characteristics of the waveguide are discussed in detail.

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