TY  - RPRT
TI  - A Comparative Assessment of Different Lens Geometries for the Material?by?Design Synthesis of Conformal Arrays
A1  - Salucci, M.
A1  - Oliveri, G.
A1  - Anselmi, N.
A1  - Massa, A.
M1  - technical_report
Y1  - 2018///
KW  - Material-by-Design (MbD)
KW  -  Array Synthesis
KW  -  Conformal Arrays
KW  -  Quasi-Conformal Transformation Optics (QCTO) 
UR  - http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/773/
ID  - elediasc12773
PB  - ELEDIA Research Center - University of Trento
AV  - public
N2  - In this work, the conformal transformation of linear antenna arrays is dealt with. An innovative Material-by-Design (MbD)  approach is proposed in order to match a user-defined reference array onto an arbitrary conformal hosting surface without changing its radiating features. Towards this end, a two-step quasi-conformal transformation optics (QCTO) methodology is suitably customized and applied to synthesize a meta-material covering of the conformal geometry able to restore the desired radiation characteristics. A comparative assessment between several choices of the lens geometry is given by means of numerical full-wave simulations.
ER  -