Conformal array design with transformation electromagnetics
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چکیده
We apply the theory of transformation electromagnetics to source arrays and show that a complex conformal antenna array can be made to behave like a geometrically different array when surrounded with a properly designed transformation electromagnetics medium. Numerical simulations are presented to show how a nonuniform circular array can be made to radiate and receive as a uniformly spaced linear array. In this way, transformation electromagnetics provides a method by which all of the advantages of simple arrays in array processing, such as beamforming, can be retained in an array whose elements are constrained to a complex geometry. © 2009 American Institute of Physics. DOI: 10.1063/1.3158614
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