A novel design of a spherical conformal array antenna via transformation optics

Author

Lei Tang ; Zhan Zhang ; Yujia Ruan ; Junhong Wang ; Shouliang Li

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of All Opt. Network & Adv. Telecommun. Network of EMC, Beijing Jiaotong Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2013

fDate

25-28 Aug. 2013

Firstpage

61

Lastpage

64

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new way to design a spherical conformal array antenna using the idea of transformation optics. Based on electromagnetic source transformation, a physically linear array antenna can be transformed into a spherical conformal array antenna. Simulation results verify the realization of a spherical conformal array antenna with particular directivity through beam shaping to the corresponding linear array antenna. The research in this paper puts forward a novel method in simplifying the design of the conformal array antenna.

Keywords

conformal antennas; linear antenna arrays; beam shaping; directivity; electromagnetic source transformation; physically linear array antenna; spherical conformal array antenna; transformation optics; Arrays; Electromagnetics; Feeds; Linear antenna arrays; Optics; Conformal array antennas; antenna radiation patterns; beam shaping; transformation optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Technology & Computational Electromagnetics (ICMTCE), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Qingdao

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMTCE.2013.6812456

Filename

6812456