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2012-12-06
Isophoric Array Antennas with a Low Number of Control Points: a `Size Tapered' Solution
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, Vol. 36, 121-131, 2013
Abstract
We propose a new architecture for array antennas able to achieve a high-gain performance by using a low number of elements and uniform-amplitude excitations. The solution is realized through a fast and deterministic design technique able to accurately emulate, by exploiting only the feeds' dimensions as degrees of freedom of the synthesis, `ideal' continuous aperture sources fulfilling at best the assigned directivity requirements. The given theory is supported by numerical examples concerning the synthesis of isophoric direct radiating arrays devoted to a multibeam coverage of Europe from a geostationary satellite.
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Andrea Francesco Morabito, Antonia Rita Lagana, and Tommaso Isernia, "Isophoric Array Antennas with a Low Number of Control Points: a `Size Tapered' Solution," Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, Vol. 36, 121-131, 2013.
doi:10.2528/PIERL12092705
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