TY  - GEN
ID  - elediasc12508
A1  - Oliveri, Giacomo
A1  - Poli, Loreno
A1  - Rocca, Paolo
A1  - Gervasio, Vincenzo
A1  - Massa, Andrea
N1  - This version is a pre-print of the final version available at IEEE.
AV  - public
UR  - http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/508/
Y1  - 2011/01//
TI  - Analytic Design Techniques for MPT Antenna Arrays
N2  - Solar Power Satellites (SPS) represent one of the most interesting technological opportunities to provide large scale, environmentally clean and renewable energy to the Earth [1]-[3]. A fundamental and critical component of SPSs is the Microwave Power Transmission (MPT) system, which is responsible for the delivery of the collected solar power to the ground rectenna [2]. Towards this end, the MPT array must exhibit a narrow main beam width (), a high beam efficiency (BWBE), and a low peak sidelobe level (). Moreover, reduced realization costs and weights are also necessary [3]. To reach these contrasting goals, several design techniques have been investigated including random methods [4] and hybrid deterministic-random approaches [2][3]. On the contrary, well-established design tools based on stochastic optimizers [5][6] are difficult to be employed, due to their high computational costs when dealing with large arrays as those of interest in SPS [3].
ER  -