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Abstract

The feasibility of designing a compact-size beam-switching dielectric lens antenna (DLA) with improved angular (scanning) characteristics is investigated numerically using inhouse software based on the Muller boundary integral equations and hybrid genetic algorithm. It is demonstrated that joint optimization of the lens shape and feeding array parameters enables one to minimize the directivity degradation for off-axis feeds which is a well-known drawback of conventional extended hemielliptic DLAs fed by focal arrays. The key to success is found in proper shaping the lens profile and using arrays of non-identical feeds.

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Dr. Artem Boriskin

Dr. Ronan Sauleau