期刊名称：International Journal of Antennas and Propagation
印刷版ISSN：1687-5869
电子版ISSN：1687-5877
出版年度：2009
卷号：2009
DOI：10.1155/2009/624035
出版社：Hindawi Publishing Corporation
摘要：A deterministic procedure to design a nonperiodic
planar array radiating a rotationally symmetric pencil beam pattern
with an adjustable sidelobe level is proposed. The elements
positions are derived by modifying the peculiar locations of the
sunflower seeds in such a way that the corresponding spatial
density fits a Taylor amplitude tapering law which guarantees
the pattern requirements in terms of beamwidth and sidelobe
level. Different configurations, based on a Voronoi cell spatial
tessellation of the radiative aperture, are presented, having as
a benchmark the requirements for a typical multibeam satellite
antenna.
