The proliferation of wireless services is driving innovative phased array solutions that are
able to provide better cost/performance tradeoffs. In this context, the use of irregular array …

Programmable metasurfaces have recently been proposed to dynamically manipulate
electromagnetic (EM) waves in both temporal and spatial dimensions. With active …

An innovative method for the synthesis of maximally sparse linear arrays matching arbitrary
reference patterns is proposed. In the framework of sparseness constrained optimization, the …

The system-by-design (SbD) is an emerging engineering framework for the optimization-
driven design of complex electromagnetic (EM) devices and systems. More specifically, the …

Active phased array antenna (APAA) is a representative of complex electronic equipment,
and it plays significant roles in scenarios such as battlefield situation perception, aviation …

In this letter, a new optimization algorithm, the Modified compact Genetic Algorithm (M-cGA)
is introduced and applied to the synthesis of thinned arrays. The M-cGA has been derived …

Reducing the computational cost of large array pattern synthesis is attractive in many
applications. In this paper, a fast pencil beam pattern synthesis method for large nonuniform …

The integration of analytical strategies and global optimisation techniques is proposed to
address the limitations of current almost difference sets (ADSs) methods for thinning planar …

Several antenna design problems are discrete valued. Particle swarm optimization (PSO)
and differential evolution (DE) are popular evolutionary algorithms that have been applied to …

In sparse arrays, the randomness of antenna locations avoids the introduction of grating
lobes, while allowing adjacent antenna spacings to be greater than half a wavelength. This …