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datestamp: 2011-07-04
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creators_name: Oliveri, Giacomo
creators_name: Poli, Loreno
creators_name: Rocca, Paolo
creators_name: Gervasio, Vincenzo
creators_name: Massa, Andrea
title: Analytic Design Techniques for MPT Antenna Arrays
ispublished: pub
subjects: TU
full_text_status: public
note: This version is a pre-print of the final version available at IEEE.
abstract: 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].
date: 2011-01
date_type: published
institution: University of Trento
department: informaticat
refereed: FALSE
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citation:   Oliveri, Giacomo and Poli, Loreno and Rocca, Paolo and Gervasio, Vincenzo and Massa, Andrea  (2011) Analytic Design Techniques for MPT Antenna Arrays.  [Technical Report]     
document_url: http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/508/1/DISI-11-163.C204.pdf