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type: monograph
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creators_name: SALUCCI, Marco
creators_name: OLIVERI, Giacomo
creators_name: MASSA, Andrea
creators_id: marco.salucci@unitn.it
creators_id: giacomo.oliveri@unitn.it
creators_id: andrea.massa@unitn.it
title: A Novel Inverse Source Technique for the Constrained Design of Reflectarray Antennas
ispublished: pub
subjects: AWC
subjects: MEA
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: technical_report
keywords: reflectarrays, RF System Design, inverse source approach, feasibility-driven design
publisher: ELEDIA Research Center - University of Trento
referencetext: M. Salucci, G. Oliveri, M. A. Hannan, and A. Massa, “System-by-design paradigm-based synthesis of complex systems: The case of spline-contoured 3D radomes,” IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine – Special Issue on ‘Artificial Intelligence in Electromagnetics,’, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 72-83, Feb. 2022.

G. Oliveri, P. Rocca, M. Salucci, and A. Massa, "Holographic smart EM skins for advanced beam power shaping in next generation wireless environments," IEEE J. Multiscale Multiphysics Comput. Tech., vol. 6, pp. 171-182, Oct. 2021.

G. Oliveri, A. Gelmini, A. Polo, N. Anselmi, and A. Massa, "System-by-design multi-scale synthesis of task-oriented reflectarrays," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 2867-2882, Apr. 2020.

M. Salucci, L. Tenuti, G. Gottardi, A. Hannan, and A. Massa, "System-by-design method for efficient linear array miniaturisation through low-complexity isotropic lenses" Electronic Letters, vol. 55, no. 8, pp. 433-434, May 2019.

M. Salucci, N. Anselmi, S. Goudos, and A. Massa, "Fast design of multiband fractal antennas through a system-by-design approach for NB-IoT applications" EURASIP J. Wirel. Commun. Netw., vol. 2019, no. 1, pp. 68-83, Mar. 2019.

M. Salucci, G. Oliveri, N. Anselmi, and A. Massa, "Material-by-design synthesis of conformal miniaturized linear phased arrays," IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 26367-26382, 2018.

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," Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, vol. 32, no. 8, pp. 927-955, 2018.

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.

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, June 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. 

A. Massa, G. Oliveri, P. Rocca, and F. Viani, "System-by-Design: a new paradigm for handling design complexity," 8th European Conference on Antennas Propag. (EuCAP 2014), The Hague, The Netherlands, pp. 1180-1183, Apr. 6-11, 2014.

P. Rocca, M. Benedetti, M. Donelli, D. Franceschini, and A. Massa, "Evolutionary optimization as applied to inverse problems," Inverse Problems - 25 th Year Special Issue of Inverse Problems, Invited Topical Review, vol. 25, pp. 1-41, Dec. 2009.

P. Rocca, G. Oliveri, and A. Massa, "Differential Evolution as applied to electromagnetics," IEEE Antennas Propag. Mag., vol. 53, no. 1,  pp. 38-49, Feb. 2011.

M. Salucci, G. Gottardi, N. Anselmi, and G. Oliveri, "Planar thinned array design by hybrid analytical-stochastic optimization," IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, vol. 11, no. 13, pp. 1841-1845, Oct. 2017

G. Oliveri, M. Donelli, and A. Massa, "Genetically-designed arbitrary length almost difference sets," Electronics Letters, vol. 5, no. 23, pp. 1182-1183, Nov. 2009.

P. Rocca, N. Anselmi, A. Polo, and A. Massa, "Pareto-optimal domino-tiling of orthogonal polygon phased arrays," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 70, no. 5, pp. 3329-3342, May 2022.

P. Rocca, N. Anselmi, A. Polo, and A. Massa, "An irregular two-sizes square tiling method for the design of isophoric phased arrays," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 4437-4449, Jun. 2020.

P. Rocca, N. Anselmi, A. Polo, and A. Massa, "Modular design of hexagonal phased arrays through diamond tiles," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol.68, no. 5, pp. 3598-3612, May 2020.

N. Anselmi, L. Poli, P. Rocca, and A. Massa, "Design of simplified array layouts for preliminary experimental testing and validation of large AESAs," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 66, no. 12, pp. 6906-6920, Dec. 2018.

N. Anselmi, P. Rocca, M. Salucci, and A. Massa, "Contiguous phase-clustering in multibeam-on-receive scanning arrays" IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 66, no. 11, pp. 5879-5891, Nov. 2018.

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.

N. Anselmi, P. Rocca, M. Salucci, and A. Massa, "Irregular phased array tiling by means of analytic schemata-driven optimization," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 65, no. 9, pp. 4495-4510, September 2017.

N. Anselmi, P. Rocca, M. Salucci, and A. Massa, "Optimization of excitation tolerances for robust beamforming in linear arrays" IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 208-214, 2016.

P. Rocca, R. J. Mailloux, and G. Toso, "GA-Based optimization of irregular sub-array layouts for wideband phased arrays desig," IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propag. Lett., vol. 14, pp. 131-134, 2015.

P. Rocca, M. Donelli, G. Oliveri, F. Viani, and A. Massa, "Reconfigurable sum-difference pattern by means of parasitic elements for forward-looking monopulse radar,"  IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, vol 7, no. 7, pp. 747-754, 2013.

P. Rocca, L. Manica, and A. Massa, "Ant colony based hybrid approach for optimal compromise sum-difference patterns synthesis," Microwave Opt. Technol. Lett., vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 128-132, Jan. 2010.

P. Rocca, L. Manica, and A. Massa, "An improved excitation matching method based on an ant colony optimization for suboptimal-free clustering in sum-difference compromise synthesis," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 57, no. 8, pp. 2297-2306, Aug. 2009.

P. Rocca, L. Manica, and A. Massa, "Hybrid approach for sub-arrayed monopulse antenna synthesis," Electronics Letters, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 75-76, Jan. 2008.

P. Rocca, L. Manica, F. Stringari, and A. Massa, "Ant colony optimization for tree-searching based synthesis of monopulse array antenna," Electronics Letters, vol. 44, no. 13, pp. 783-785, Jun. 19, 2008.

M. Salucci, F. Robol, N. Anselmi, M. A. Hannan, P. Rocca, G. Oliveri, M. Donelli, and A. Massa, "S-Band spline-shaped aperture-stacked patch antenna for air traffic control applications," IEEE Tran. Antennas Propag., vol. 66, no. 8, pp. 4292-4297, Aug. 2018.

T. Moriyama, F. Viani, M. Salucci, F. Robol, and E. Giarola, "Planar multiband antenna for 3G/4G advanced wireless services," IEICE Electronics Express, vol. 11, no. 17, pp. 1-10, Sep. 2014.

F. Viani, "Dual-band sierpinski pre-fractal antenna for 2.4GHz-WLAN and 800MHz-LTE wireless devices," Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, vol. 35, pp. 63-71, 2013.

F. Viani, M. Salucci, F. Robol, and A. Massa, "Multiband fractal Zigbee/WLAN antenna for ubiquitous wireless environments," Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, vol. 26, no. 11-12, pp. 1554-1562. 2012.

F. Viani, M. Salucci, F. Robol, G. Oliveri, and A. Massa, "Design of a UHF RFID/GPS fractal antenna for logistics management," Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, vol. 26, pp. 480-492, 2012.

M. Salucci, L. Poli, A. F. Morabito, and P. Rocca, "Adaptive nulling through subarray switching in planar antenna arrays," Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 404-414, February 2016

T. Moriyama, L. Poli, and P. Rocca, "Adaptive nulling in thinned planar arrays through genetic algorithms" IEICE Electronics Express, vol. 11, no. 21, pp. 1-9, Sep. 2014.

L. Poli, P. Rocca, M. Salucci, and A. Massa, "Reconfigurable thinning for the adaptive control of linear arrays," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 61, no. 10, pp. 5068-5077, Oct. 2013.

P. Rocca, L. Poli, G. Oliveri, and A. Massa, "Adaptive nulling in time-varying scenarios through time-modulated linear arrays," IEEE Antennas Wireless Propag. Lett., vol. 11, pp. 101-104, 2012.

M. Benedetti, G. Oliveri, P. Rocca, and A. Massa, "A fully-adaptive smart antenna prototype: ideal model and experimental validation in complex interference scenarios," Progress in Electromagnetic Research, PIER 96, pp. 173-191, 2009.

M. Benedetti, R. Azaro, and A. Massa, "Memory enhanced PSO-based optimization approach for smart antennas control in complex interference scenarios," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 56, no. 7, pp. 1939-1947, Jul. 2008.

M. Benedetti, R. Azaro, and A. Massa, "Experimental validation of a fully-adaptive smart antenna prototype," Electronics Letters, vol. 44, no. 11, pp. 661-662, May 2008.

R. Azaro, L. Ioriatti, M. Martinelli, M. Benedetti, and A. Massa, "An experimental realization of a fully-adaptive smart antenna," Microwave Opt. Technol. Lett., vol. 50, no. 6, pp. 1715-1716, Jun. 2008.

M. Donelli, R. Azaro, L. Fimognari, and A. Massa, "A planar electronically reconfigurable Wi-Fi band antenna based on a parasitic microstrip structure," IEEE Antennas Wireless Propag. Lett., vol. 6, pp. 623-626, 2007.

M. Benedetti, R. Azaro, D. Franceschini, and A. Massa, "PSO-based real-time control of planar uniform circular arrays," IEEE Antennas Wireless Propag. Lett., vol. 5, pp. 545-548, 2006.

F. Viani, F. Robol, M. Salucci, and R. Azaro, "Automatic EMI filter design through particle swarm optimization," IEEE Trans. Electromagnet. Compat., vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 1079-1094, Aug. 2017. 

G. Oliveri, M. Salucci, and A. Massa, “Towards reflectarray digital twins - An EM-driven machine learning perspective,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation – Special Issue on ‘Machine Learning in Antenna Design, Modeling, and Measurements,’ vol. 70, no. 7, pp. 5078-5093, July 2022.

M. Salucci, L. Tenuti, G. Oliveri, and A. Massa, "Efficient prediction of the EM response of reflectarray antenna elements by an advanced statistical learning method," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 66, no. 8, pp. 3995-4007, Aug. 2018.
citation:   SALUCCI, Marco and OLIVERI, Giacomo and MASSA, Andrea   A Novel Inverse Source Technique for the Constrained Design of Reflectarray Antennas.  Technical Report. ELEDIA Research Center - University of Trento.     
document_url: http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/839/1/A-Novel-Inverse-Source-Technique-for-the-Constrained-Design-of-Reflectarray-Antennas.pdf