%0 Report
%9 Technical Report
%A Salucci, M.
%A Oliveri, G.
%A Anselmi, N.
%A Gottardi, G.
%A Massa, A.
%D 2016
%F elediasc12:760
%K Material-by-Design (MbD), linear array enhancement, Quasi-Conformal Transformation Optics (QCTO), Source Inversion (SI)
%T Performance Enhancement of Linear Scanned Arrays through an Innovative Material-by-Design Methodology
%U http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/760/
%X A novel quasi conformal transformation optics (QCTO)-based approach is introduced for the synthesis of coating meta-lenses that are able to improve the radiation pattern of the covered linear antenna arrays. Thanks to the QCTO technique, the proposed material-by-design synthesis methodology is able to reduce the half-power beam-width (HPBW) and the side-lobe level (SLL) of a given linear array without introducing strong anisotropies in the synthesized meta-material coating lens. Some representative numerical examples are shown in order to assess the effectiveness, as well as the limits, of the proposed MbD method.