relation: http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/757/ title: Enhancement of Linear Antenna Arrays through an Innovative QCTO‐SI Method: Preliminary Assessment creator: Salucci, M. creator: Oliveri, G. creator: Anselmi, N. creator: Gottardi, G. creator: Massa, A. subject: A WC Next Generation Wireless Communications subject: M AT Analytic Techniques subject: M EA Evolutionary Algorithms description: In this work, an innovative Material-by-Design (MbD) methodology is proposed to improve the radiation features of a linear active electronically-scanned array (AESA) without increasing the number of elements nor requiring the re-design of the radiators and/or feeding network. The quasi-conformal transformation optics (QCTO) approach is exploited to design an enhancing meta-material lens that is able to focus the radiated field of the original antenna. Moreover, a source inversion (SI) strategy is adopted to properly set the array excitations in order to match the radiation characteristics of significantly larger apertures. Some preliminary numerical results are reported and discussed. publisher: ELEDIA Research Center - University of Trento date: 2018 type: Monograph type: NonPeerReviewed format: text language: en identifier: http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/757/1/Enhancement%20of%20Linear%20Antenna%20Arrays%20through%20an%20Innovative%20QCTO%E2%80%90SI%20Method%20Preliminary%20Assessment.pdf identifier: Salucci, M. and Oliveri, G. and Anselmi, N. and Gottardi, G. and Massa, A. (2018) Enhancement of Linear Antenna Arrays through an Innovative QCTO‐SI Method: Preliminary Assessment. Technical Report. ELEDIA Research Center - University of Trento.