Papers Published
- Popa, BI; Allen, J; Cummer, SA, Conformal array design with transformation electromagnetics,
Applied Physics Letters, vol. 94 no. 24
(June, 2009),
pp. 244102-244102, AIP Publishing [doi] .
(last updated on 2023/06/01)Abstract:
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.