A New Approach Combining Surrounded-Element and Compression Methods for Analyzing Reconfigurable Reflectarray Antennas

Clement Yann (1) , Renaud Loison (1) , Raphaël Gillard (2) , Michèle Labeyrie (3) , Jean-Paul Martinaud (3)

1 IETR - Institut d'Electronique et de Télécommunications de Rennes
2 IETR - Institut d'Électronique et des Technologies du numéRique
3 THALES Airborne Systems [Elancourt]

An efficient technique to provide fast and accurate analysis of large-scale and complex reconfigurable reflectarray antennas is presented and validated. The method combines the surrounded cell approach and the compression technique to analyze the global array. It takes into account the mutual coupling effects and the numerical complexity is reduced. Only a minor electromagnetic simulation and a fast post-processing are required.

Mots clés: Reconfigurable reflectarray; rigorous analysis; surrounded cell approach; compression technique

Domaines: Modélisation et simulation; Electronique; Electromagnétisme

Clement Yann, Renaud Loison, Raphaël Gillard, Michèle Labeyrie, Jean-Paul Martinaud. A New Approach Combining Surrounded-Element and Compression Methods for Analyzing Reconfigurable Reflectarray Antennas. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2012, 6 (7), pp.3215-3221. ⟨hal-00741285⟩