A QCTO‐SI Method for the Design of Enhancing Lenses for Linear Antenna Arrays

Salucci, M. and Oliveri, G. and Anselmi, N. and Gottardi, G. and Massa, A. (2018) A QCTO‐SI Method for the Design of Enhancing Lenses for Linear Antenna Arrays. Technical Report. ELEDIA Research Center - University of Trento.

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Abstract

In this work a novel material-by-design (MbD) strategy is proposed to address the problem of enhancing the radiation performance (in terms of directivity and side-lobe level) of existing linear phased arrays. Thanks to the integration of the quasi-conformal transformation optics (QCTO) technique with a customized source inversion (SI) strategy, the proposed approach enables the synthesis of meta-material lenses with reduced anisotropy indexes that are able to significantly enhance the radiation characteristics of linear antenna arrays, letting them mimic the performance of larger apertures. To prove the effectiveness of the MbD methodology, some numerical benchmarks are reported and discussed.

Item Type: Monograph (Technical Report)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Material-by-Design (MbD), linear array enhancement, Quasi-Conformal Transformation Optics (QCTO), Source Inversion (SI)
Subjects: A Areas > A WC Next Generation Wireless Communications
M Methodologies > M EA Evolutionary Algorithms
URI: http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/id/eprint/759

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