“…The proposed novel semianalytical method is based on the WH technique combined with the Fredholm factorization method [20], [21] that allows the study of the problem independently of the thickness and the density of the penetrable semi-infinite layer correctly considering near-field interaction. In particular, we note that the WH literature on similar problems reports procedures based on Jones's like methods (see [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], [27], [28]) where a system of infinite equations is solved approximately to get the solution of the modified WH problem. This method was adopted in particular in [15], [16], [17], and [18] where an ad hoc prefactorization of scalar functions is needed.…”