Abstract
This work presents a novel formulation, based on the dipole moment (DM) method, to efficiently analyze scattering from finite periodic structures, where the unit-cell elements of these structures are arbitrarily shaped and are inhomogeneous objects in general. The key point of using the dipole moment method is that the scattered fields are obtained in closed-forms for arbitrarily shaped metallic as well as dielectric objects, which facilitates efficient computation of the MoM matrix in comparison to the conventional approach for matrix generation which utilizes RWG basis functions. Numerical results obtained by using the proposed approach show good agreement with those obtained using a commercial MoM software package.