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type: monograph
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creators_name: Salucci, M.
creators_name: Oliveri, G.
creators_name: Anselmi, N.
creators_name: Massa, A.
title: Lens Thickness Impact on the Performance of Conformal Miniaturized Arrays Designed through a Material‐by‐Design Approach 
ispublished: pub
subjects: AWC
subjects: MAT
subjects: MEA
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: technical_report
keywords: Material-by-Design (MbD), Array Synthesis, Conformal Arrays, Quasi-Conformal Transformation Optics (QCTO), Array Miniaturization, Source Inversion (SI)
abstract: 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. 
date: 2018
publisher: ELEDIA Research Center - University of Trento
referencetext: G. Oliveri, G. Gottardi, F. Robol, A. Polo, L. Poli, M. Salucci, M. Chuan, C. Massagrande, P. Vinetti, M. Mattivi, R. Lombardi, and A. Massa, "Co-design of unconventional array architectures and antenna elements for 5G base station," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 65, no. 12, pp. 6752-6767, Dec. 2017.

P. Rocca, G. Oliveri, R. J. Mailloux, and A. Massa, “Unconventional phased array architectures and design methodologies - A review,” Proc. IEEE, vol. 104, no. 3, pp. 544-560, Mar. 2016.

G. Oliveri, M. Salucci, N. Anselmi and A. Massa, “Multiscale System-by-Design synthesis of printed WAIMs for waveguide array enhancement,” IEEE J. Multiscale Multiphysics Computat. Techn., vol. 2, pp. 84-96, 2017.

A. Massa and G. Oliveri, “Metamaterial-by-Design: Theory, methods, and applications to communications and sensing - Editorial,” EPJ Applied Metamaterials, vol. 3, no. E1, pp. 1-3, 2016.

L. Poli, G. Oliveri, P. Rocca, M. Salucci, and A. Massa, “Long-Distance WPT Unconventional Arrays Synthesis,” J. Electromagnet. Waves Appl., vol. 31, no. 14, pp. 1399-1420, Jul. 2017.

G. Oliveri, F. Viani, N. Anselmi, and A. Massa, “Synthesis of multi-layer WAIM coatings for planar phased arrays within the system-by-design framework,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 63, no. 6, pp. 2482-2496, Jun. 2015.

G. Oliveri, L. Tenuti, E. Bekele, M. Carlin, and A. Massa, “An SbD-QCTO approach to the synthesis of isotropic metamaterial lenses,” IEEE Antennas Wireless Propag. Lett., vol. 13, pp. 1783-1786, 2014.

G. Oliveri, D. H. Werner, and A. Massa, “Reconfigurable electromagnetics through metamaterials - A review” Proc. IEEE, vol. 103, no. 7, pp. 1034-1056, Jul. 2015.

G. Oliveri, E. T. Bekele, M. Salucci, and A. Massa, “Transformation electromagnetics miniaturization of sectoral and conical horn antennas,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 1508-1513, Apr. 2016.

G. Oliveri, E. T. Bekele, M. Salucci, and A. Massa, “Array miniaturization through QCTO-SI metamaterial radomes,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 63, no. 8, pp. 3465-3476, Aug. 2015.

G. Oliveri, E. T. Bekele, D. H. Werner, J. P. Turpin, and A. Massa, “Generalized QCTO for metamaterial-lens-coated conformal arrays,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 62, no. 8, pp 4089-4095, Aug. 2014. 

G. Oliveri, E. Bekele, M. Carlin, L. Tenuti, J. Turpin, D. H. Werner, and A. Massa, “Extended QCTO for innovative antenna system designs,” IEEE Antenna Conference on Antenna Measurements and Applications (CAMA 2014), pp. 1-3, Nov. 16-19, 2014.

G. Oliveri, P. Rocca, M. Salucci, E. T. Bekele, D. H. Werner, and A. Massa, “Design and synthesis of innovative metamaterial-enhanced arrays,” IEEE International Symposium on Antennas Propag. (APS/URSI 2013), Orlando, Florida, USA, pp. 972 - 973, Jul. 7-12, 2013.

G. Oliveri, “Improving the reliability of frequency domain simulators in the presence of homogeneous metamaterials - A preliminary numerical assessment,” Progress In Electromagnetics Research, vol. 122, pp. 497-518, 2012.

M. Salucci, G. Oliveri, N. Anselmi, G. Gottardi, and A. Massa, "Performance enhancement of linear active electronically-scanned arrays by means of MbD-synthesized metalenses," J. Electromagnet. Waves Appl., vol. 32, no. 8, pp. 927-955, 2018.

M. Salucci, G. Oliveri, N. Anselmi, and A. Massa, “Material-by-design synthesis of conformal miniaturized linear phased arrays,” IEEE Access (doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2833199).
citation:   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.     
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