• DocumentCode
    2932624
  • Title

    Reflectarray with arbitrarily-shaped conductive elements optimized by genetic algorithm

  • Author

    Aoki, Yuki ; Deguchi, Hiroyuki ; Tsuji, Mikio

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron., Doshisha Univ., Kyoto, Japan
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    3-8 July 2011
  • Firstpage
    960
  • Lastpage
    963
  • Abstract
    This paper proposes an optimization design method to obtain arbitrarily-shaped conductive elements for microstrip reflectarrays. Such arbitrarily-shaped elements are determined by using the genetic algorithm (GA) based on a spectral-domain moment method. The validity of the designed elements is presented by comparing the calculated reflection-phase property for a periodic reflectarray with the measured one. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed elements is verified by discussing radiation characteristics of the fabricated offset reflectarray numerically and experimentally.
  • Keywords
    genetic algorithms; method of moments; microstrip antenna arrays; reflector antennas; arbitrarily-shaped conductive elements; genetic algorithm; microstrip reflectarrays; optimization design method; periodic reflectarray; spectral-domain moment method; Antenna measurements; Broadband antennas; Finite element methods; Geometry; Microstrip;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Spokane, WA
  • ISSN
    1522-3965
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-9562-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APS.2011.5996437
  • Filename
    5996437