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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume 48 Number 4, April 2000

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A Truncated Floquet Wave Diffraction Method for the Full-Wave Analysis of Large Phased Arrays- Part II: Generalization to 3-D Cases

Andrea Neto, Stefano Maci, Senior Member, IEEE Giuseppe Vecchi, Member, IEEE and Marco Sabbadini

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Abstract:

This second part of a two-paper sequence deals with the generalization to three-dimensional (3-D) arrays of the truncated Floquet wave (TFW) diffraction method for the full wave analysis of large arrays. This generalization potentially includes arrays consisting of microstrip excited slots, cavity-backed apertures,and patches. The formulation is carried out first by deriving an appropriate fringe integral equation (IE) and next by defining entire domain basis functions in terms of global-array functions shaped as TFW diffracted rays whose analytical expression is derived on the basis of prototype canonical problems. The efficiency and the accuracy of this method is demonstrated by comparison with the results of an element-by-element full wave approach for a rectangular slot array.

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