Technical Program

WE-A1.3A: Reflector Analysis and Design

Session Type: Oral
Time: Wednesday, July 12, 08:00 - 11:20
Location: Hillcrest AB
Session Chairs: Yahya Rahmat-Samii, University of California, Los Angeles, Erik Jorgensen, TICRA, Dirk De Villiers, Stellenbosch University and Yehuda Leviatan, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
 
08:00 - 08:20
WE-A1.3A.1: AN END-TO-END OPTIMIZATION APPROACH TO DRASTICALLY REDUCE CROSS-POLARIZATION IN OFFSET MMWAVE REFLECTOR ANTENNAS
         Joshua Kovitz, Vignesh Manohar, Yahya Rahmat-Samii, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
 
08:20 - 08:40
WE-A1.3A.2: AN EXACT, CLOSED FORM SOLUTION TO REFLECTOR SHAPING
         George Cheng, Yong Zhu, Jan Grzesik, Allwave Corporation, United States
 
08:40 - 09:00
WE-A1.3A.3: MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION OF REFLECTOR ANTENNAS USING KRIGING AND PROBABILITY OF IMPROVEMENT
         Dirk de Villiers, Stellenbosch University, South Africa; Ivo Couckuyt, Tom Dhaene, Ghent University, Belgium
 
09:00 - 09:20
WE-A1.3A.4: COMPUTATION OF REFLECTOR CONTOURS FOR GAUSSIAN BEAM SHAPING PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA ELEMENTS
         Christian Koenen, Uwe Siart, Thomas F. Eibert, Technical University of Munich, Germany
 
09:20 - 09:40
WE-A1.3A.5: APERTURE EFFICIENCY PERFORMANCE LIMITS OF THE SKA REFLECTOR SYSTEM
         Robert Lehmensiek, EMSS Antennas, South Africa; Dirk de Villiers, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
 
09:40 - 10:00 Break
 
10:00 - 10:20
WE-A1.3A.6: EFFICIENT SURFACE OPTIMIZATION OF LARGE DUAL REFLECTOR SYSTEMS
         Oscar Borries, Erik Jørgensen, Stig Busk Sørensen, Hans-Henrik Viskum, TICRA, Denmark
 
10:20 - 10:40
WE-A1.3A.7: ADVANCED TECHNIQUES FOR GRATING LOBE REDUCTION FOR LARGE DEPLOYABLE MESH REFLECTOR ANTENNAS
         Jakob Rosenkrantz de Lasson, Cecilia Cappellin, Rolf Jørgensen, TICRA, Denmark; Leri Datashvili, LSS, Germany; Jean-Christophe Angevain, ESTEC, Netherlands
 
10:40 - 11:00
WE-A1.3A.8: DEVELOPMENT OF A CIRCULARLY POLARIZED L-BAND SAR DEPLOYABLE MESH REFLECTOR ANTENNA FOR MICROSAT EARTH OBSERVATION
         Katia Nagamine Urata, Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo, Nobuyoshi Imura, Koichi Ito, Chiba University, Japan; Steven Gao, University of Kent, United Kingdom
 
11:00 - 11:20
WE-A1.3A.9: L BAND CIRCULARLY POLARIZED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR ONBOARD MICROSATELLITE USING PARABOLIC MESH ANTENNA
         Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo, Katia Nagamine Urata, Nobuyoshi Imura, Koichi Ito, Chiba University, Japan; Steven Gao, University of Kent, United Kingdom