Sunflower Array Antenna with Adjustable Density Taper | Zendy

Maria Carolina Viganó | Zendy; Giovanni Toso | Zendy; G. Caille | Zendy; C. Mangenot | Zendy; Ioan E. Lager | Zendy

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Sunflower Array Antenna with Adjustable Density Taper

Author(s) -

Maria Carolina Viganó,

Giovanni Toso,

G. Caille,

C. Mangenot,

Ioan E. Lager

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

international journal of antennas and propagation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.282

H-Index - 37

eISSN - 1687-5877

pISSN - 1687-5869

DOI - 10.1155/2009/624035

Subject(s) - tapering , beamwidth , aperture (computer memory) , antenna (radio) , planar , planar array , amplitude , voronoi diagram , optics , radiation pattern , physics , mathematics , computer science , acoustics , telecommunications , geometry , computer graphics (images)

A deterministic procedure to design a nonperiodic planar array radiating a rotationally symmetric pencil beam pattern with an adjustable sidelobe level is proposed. The elements positions are derived by modifying the peculiar locations of the sunflower seeds in such a way that the corresponding spatial density fits a Taylor amplitude tapering law which guarantees the pattern requirements in terms of beamwidth and sidelobe level. Different configurations, based on a Voronoi cell spatial tessellation of the radiative aperture, are presented, having as a benchmark the requirements for a typical multibeam satellite antenna

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