relation: http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/772/
title: Lens Thickness Impact on the Performance of Conformal Miniaturized Arrays Designed through a Material‐by‐Design Approach 
creator: Salucci, M.
creator: Oliveri, G.
creator: Anselmi, N.
creator: Massa, A.
subject: A WC Next Generation Wireless Communications
subject: M AT Analytic Techniques
subject: M EA Evolutionary Algorithms
description: This work deals with the conformal miniaturization of linear antenna arrays. A novel design methodology based on the Material-by-Design (MbD) paradigm is proposed. More precisely, the presented approach exploits a two-step quasi-conformal transformation optics (QCTO) algorithm in order to match linear arrays onto arbitrary surfaces. The synthesized meta-material lens, covering the conformal array, ensures that its radiation features are kept as much as possible equal to those of the reference antenna in free-space. Moreover, a source inversion (SI) strategy is adopted in order to achieve a reduction of the radiators in the final conformal arrangement. A study of the impact of the lens thickness on the achievable performance is presented, making use of full-wave simulations in order to carefully analyze the electromagnetic behavior of the synthesized radiating architectures. 
publisher: ELEDIA Research Center - University of Trento
date: 2018
type: Monograph
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text
language: en
identifier: http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/772/1/Lens%20Thickness%20Impact%20on%20the%20Performance%20of%20Conformal%20Miniaturized%20Arrays%20Designed%20through%20a%20Material%E2%80%90by%E2%80%90Design%20Approach%20.pdf
identifier:   Salucci, M. and Oliveri, G. and Anselmi, N. and Massa, A.  (2018) Lens Thickness Impact on the Performance of Conformal Miniaturized Arrays Designed through a Material‐by‐Design Approach.  Technical Report. ELEDIA Research Center - University of Trento.