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Manchot
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Well then, that's not a perfect conductor, is it? (Typically, a perfect conductor is defined as an object with infinite conductance, such that any applied fields are canceled out immediately. Both the mobility and free electron density factor into conductance, so an object with high mobility and a low free electron density will still have a mediocre conductance.)Anyhow, if you have a conductor without ohmmic losses, but with few free electrons, the wave created by the oscillating electrons will not have the amplitude needed to "reflect" totally the incoming wave.
As for dielectric splitters, keep in mind that the formulas you posted earlier only apply to single interfaces. Multiple interfaces require the use of propagation matrices to fully solve.
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