A generalized direct optimization technique (GDOT) for the design of printed reflectarrays using arbitrarily shaped elements with irregular orientation and position is presented. The GDOT is based...

A generalized direct optimization technique (GDOT) for the design of printed reflectarrays using arbitrarily shaped elements with irregular orientation and position is presented. The GDOT is based...
An accurate and efficient direct optimization technique for the design of contoured beam reflectarrays is presented. It is based on the spectral domain method of moments assuming local periodicity...
We present a new efficient design tool for rotationally symmetric reflector antennas, possibly including 3D support structures and waveguide components. The tool is based on a combination of four...
An accurate and efficient tool for the design of contoured beam reflectarrays is presented. It is based on the Spectral Domain Method of Moments, the Local Periodicity approach, and a minimax...
It is demonstrated that nonsingular higher-order hierarchical Legendre basis functions are capable of accounting for the singularities of the electric currents at the edges of the reflectarray...
An efficient power pattern synthesis of contoured beam reflectarrays is presented. Using the presented synthesis technique, an offset dual-polarized contoured beam reflectarray to cover an...
Higher-order basis functions are commonly used for discretization of surface integral equations, which are typically solved by the Method of Moments (MoM). This leads to higher accuracy and lower...
The design and analysis of printed reflectarrays with irregularly positioned array elements is presented. An accurate and efficient power pattern synthesis procedure, based on the Local...
This paper presents an overview of selected new modelling algorithms and capabilities in commercial software tools developed by TICRA. A major new area is design and analysis of printed...
In this paper, we apply a recently developed 3D source reconstruction algorithm to perform antenna diagnostics on a planar array configuration. The test case is a planar X-band slot array measured...