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Reply to the “Comment on ‘Transfer Matrix Method for General Bianisotropic Layers’: Correction of Explicit Formulations” by Joosun Yun

Morgan Alecsandre Blankenship,

Mr. Morgan Alecsandre Blankenship

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Texas at El Paso

USA

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Edgar Bustamante,

Dr. Edgar Bustamante

The University of Texas at El Paso

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Raymond C. Rumpf

Dr. Raymond C. Rumpf

Kraetonics LLC

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Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 167, 244-245, 2026

doi:10.2528/PIERC26032301 | Google Scholar

Abstract

This reply addresses the comment by Yun [1] regarding the sign errors in the Ω matrix terms for our recent paper on the transfer matrix method for general bianisotropic layers. The comment correctly identifies sign errors, which does lead to non-physical results. In this reply, we present an alternative construction method for Ω that has fewer opportunities for transcription errors over the original formulation. These corrections do not affect the remainder of the formulation and correction. However, it does affect the results of the second example in the original paper, which is corrected here.

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Morgan Alecsandre Blankenship, Edgar Bustamante, and Raymond C. Rumpf, "Reply to the “Comment on ‘Transfer Matrix Method for General Bianisotropic Layers’: Correction of Explicit Formulations” by Joosun Yun," Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 167, 244-245, 2026.
doi:10.2528/PIERC26032301

References

1. Yun, Joosun, "Comment on ‘Transfer matrix method for general bianisotropic layers’: Correction of explicit formulations," Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 167, 242-243, 2026.
doi:10.2528/pierc26020202 Google Scholar

2. Blankenship, M. A., E. Bustamante, and R. C. Rumpf, "Transfer matrix method for general bianisotropic layers," Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, Vol. 114, 99-106, 2025.
doi:10.2528/pierb25021707 Google Scholar