Special Issue on Electromagnetic Theory
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 . FOREWORD ....................................................... 1321
        Masahiro HASHIMOTO and Alexander I.NOSICH

INVITED PAPERS
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 . The Vector Nature of Electromagnetic Field: to What Results It Leads
   in the Theory of Dielectric Waveguides? ........................ 1323
        Boris Z.KATSENELENBAUM

 . Discrete Higher-Order Leaky-Wave Modes and the Continuous Spectrum
   of Stripline ................................................... 1331
        Dennis P.NYQUIST and David J.INFANTE

 . Principles of Radar Polarimetry ................................ 1339
        Ernst LUNNEBURG

 . Generalized Ray Expansion with Elliptic Ray Tubes in Hybrid Analysis
   of EM Scattering by Open Cavities .............................. 1346
        Robert J.BURKHOLDER, Prabhakar H.PATHAK, Hsi-Tseng CHOU, and
        Dennis ANDERSH

 . Electromagnetic Wave Scattering in Media Whose Particles are
   Randomly Displaced from a Uniformly Ordered Spatial Distribution
            ....................................................... 1357
        Mitsuo TATEIBA

PAPERS
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 . Three-Dimensional Analytical Electrostatic Green's Functions for
   Shielded and Open Arbitrarily Multilayered Medium Structures and
   Their Application to Analysis of Microstrip Discontinuities .... 1366
        Keren LI and Kazuhiko ATSUKI

 . Low Loss Optical Waveguide Bends Consisting of Uniaxial Crystalline
   Material ....................................................... 1373
        Shinnosuke SAWA, Toshiaki KITAMURA, Masahiro GESHIRO, and
        Tadashi YOSHIKAWA

 . Analysis of 3-Line Tapered Velocity Couplers with a Nonlinear
   Waveguide ...................................................... 1378
        Toshiaki KITAMURA, Masahiro GESHIRO, Shinnosuke SAWA, and
        Masato SASAKI

 . Material Effects in Bi-anisotropic Electromagnetics ............ 1383
        Ari Henrik SIHVOLA and Ismo V.LINDELL

 . Spatial Electromagnetic Fields in Chiral Integrated Structures via
   Sommerfeld Integrals ........................................... 1391
        Lucio VEGNI and Alessandro TOSCANO

 . Numerical Analysis of Dielectric Rod Waveguide with Corrugation of
   Nonintegral-Ratio Period Waves ................................. 1402
        Hiroshi KUBO, Kimihisa FUKUSHIMA, and Ikuo AWAI

 . Determination of Diffusion-Parameter Values in K+-Ion Exchange
   Waveguides Made by Diluted KNO3 in Soda-Lime Glass ............. 1409
        Kiyoshi KISHIOKA

 . Exact Solution of Propagation Constant of Cylindrical Waveguide with
   Finite Conductivity ............................................ 1419
        Wei-Dong WANG, Minoru ABE, and Toshio SEKIGUCHI

 . Analysis of a Cherenkov Laser Loaded with a Kerr-like Medium by
   Multilayer Approximation Method ................................ 1427
        Toshio NISHIMURA, Tetsuya UEDA, and Toshiyuki SHIOZAWA

 . PO Diffraction Coefficients for the Surface of Strips on a Grounded
   Dielectric Slab ................................................ 1433
        Shuguang CHEN, Masayuki OODO, Makoto ANDO, and Naohisa GOTO

 . Surface Potential Method in the Wave Scattering from Localized
   Inhomogeneities of a Planar Dielectric Waveguide ............... 1440
        Alexander G.YAROVOY

 . Diffraction Characteristics of a Finite Metal-Strip Grating
   Integrated with a Planar Dielectric Waveguide .................. 1447
        Victor I.KALINICHEV

 . Scattering by Two-Dimensional Rectangular Resistive Plane Gratings
   with Anisotropic Slab .......................................... 1453
        Masamitsu ASAI, Jiro YAMAKITA, Shinnosuke SAWA, and Junya ISHII

LETTER
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 . A 3-D Boundary Element Analysis of EM Wave Scattering by a Perfectly
   Conducting Body with Edges and Corners ......................... 1460
        Katsuya MANABE and Yasumitsu MIYAZAKI

Regular Section
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PAPER
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[Opto-Electronics]

 . Optical Constants of Magnetic Fluids and Their Application to
   Optical Switches ............................................... 1465
        Mitsunori SAITO, Makoto TAKAKUWA, and Mitsunobu MAYAGI

LETTER
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[Integrated Electronics]

 . Data Bypassing Register File for Low Power Microprocessor ...... 1470
        Makoto IKEDA and Kunihiro ASADA

 . ABSTRACTS (IEICE Trans., Vol.J78-C-I, J78-C-II, No.10 in Japanese)
            ....................................................... 1473