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Rapid Design of 3D Reflectarray Antennas by Inverse Surrogate Modeling and Regularization

Abstract

Reflectarrays (RAs) exhibit important advantages over conventional antenna arrays, especially in terms of realizing pencil-beam patterns without the employment of the feeding networks. Unfortunately, microstrip RA implementations feature narrow bandwidths, and are severely affected by losses. A considerably improved performance can be achieved for RAs involving grounded dielectric layers, which are also easy to manufacture using 3D printing technology. Regardless of the implementation details, a practical bottleneck of RA design is the necessity of independent adjustment of a large number of unit cells, which has to be carried out using full-wave electromagnetic (EM) simulation models to ensure reliability. The associated computational costs are extraordinary. A practical workaround is the incorporation of surrogate modeling methods; however, a construction of accurate metamodel requires a large number of training data samples. This letter introduces an alternative RA design approach, where the unit cells are adjusted using an inverse surrogate model established with a small number of anchor points, pre-optimized for the reference reflection phases. To ensure solution uniqueness, the anchor point optimization involves regularization, here, based on the minimum-volume condition for the unit cell. The presented approach reduces the computational cost of RA design to a few dozens of EM analyses of the cell. Several demonstration examples are provided, along with an experimental validation of the selected RA realization.

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Category:
Articles
Type:
artykuły w czasopismach
Published in:
IEEE Access no. 11, pages 24175 - 24184,
ISSN: 2169-3536
Language:
English
Publication year:
2023
Bibliographic description:
Kozieł S., Belen M., Caliskan A., Mahouti P.: Rapid Design of 3D Reflectarray Antennas by Inverse Surrogate Modeling and Regularization// IEEE Access -Vol. 11, (2023), s.24175-24184
DOI:
Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1109/access.2023.3254204
Sources of funding:
  • Free publication
Verified by:
Gdańsk University of Technology

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