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According to the principle of tangent plane approximation and by using the plane wave spectrum expansion method, the scattered field from one triangular element is derived as a double integral in the spectral domain. To obtain the solution in the spatial domain, the saddle point method is used to asymptotically calculate the integral. Then, the equivalent surface currents (ESCs) are constructed by calculating the surface field at the outer surface of the planar model, from which the PO solution is derived by using the Stratton\u2013Chu integral. Moreover, to interpret the field propagation process in the plasma layer quantitatively, the total scattered field of the coated planar model is decomposed into the superposition of different mode field components. It is observed that the scattered fields demonstrate an inherent cross-polarization phenomenon due to the nonreciprocal constitutive relation of the plasma, which is a distinct feature and is different from the general anisotropic medium whose dielectric parameters can be diagonalized. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by numerical results. 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