%X In  this  work,  an  innovative  paradigm  is  presented to  deal  with  the  design  of reflectarray  surface  currents that  satisfy  both  radiation  and  arbitrary  geometry constraints. To this aim, the synthesis problem at hand is formulated as an inverse source  one, then  solved  in  an analytical  way.  Owing  to  the  non‐uniqueness  of  the solution,  the  existence  of  non‐radiating  current components  are  successfully exploited  as  additional degrees‐of‐freedom  to  match  both  radiation  and aperture geometry constraints. Selected representative numerical experiments are presented to verify the effectiveness of the developed synthesis method.
%A Marco SALUCCI
%A Angelo GELMINI
%A Giacomo OLIVERI
%A Nicola ANSELMI
%A Andrea MASSA
%D 2019
%K Geometry-constrained design, inverse source (IS) problems, nonradiating (NR) currents, reflectarray current synthesis.
%L elediasc12789
%I ELEDIA Research Center - University of Trento
%T Design of Shaped‐Beam Reflectarrays with Arbitrary Geometrical Constraints: An Inverse Source Approach