TY - GEN
T1 - Design of volumetric antenna arrays based on three-dimensional aperiodic tilings
AU - Namin, F.
AU - Werner, Douglas Henry
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - In recent years there has been a considerable amount of research devoted to developing linear and planar antenna arrays with nonuniform element spacing. One of the inspirations for investigating such nonuniform array layouts comes from recent discoveries in solid state crystallography. For a long period it was assumed that crystals can only have periodic structures with translational symmetry. However in 1984 a new class of metallic solids were discovered which showed icosahedral symmetry [1]. While these structures were not perfectly symmetric, their X-ray diffraction patterns did display rotational symmetry. This new class of solids are known as "quasi-crystals". The particle formations in quasi-crystals are not periodic in a traditional sense, however they are deterministic and display rotational symmetry. Mathematically, these structures are classified as aperiodic tilings. In general, a tiling is a partition of space into a countable number of tiles without gaps or overlaps.
AB - In recent years there has been a considerable amount of research devoted to developing linear and planar antenna arrays with nonuniform element spacing. One of the inspirations for investigating such nonuniform array layouts comes from recent discoveries in solid state crystallography. For a long period it was assumed that crystals can only have periodic structures with translational symmetry. However in 1984 a new class of metallic solids were discovered which showed icosahedral symmetry [1]. While these structures were not perfectly symmetric, their X-ray diffraction patterns did display rotational symmetry. This new class of solids are known as "quasi-crystals". The particle formations in quasi-crystals are not periodic in a traditional sense, however they are deterministic and display rotational symmetry. Mathematically, these structures are classified as aperiodic tilings. In general, a tiling is a partition of space into a countable number of tiles without gaps or overlaps.
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U2 - 10.1109/APS.2010.5561103
DO - 10.1109/APS.2010.5561103
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78349246358
SN - 9781424449682
T3 - 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and CNC-USNC/URSI Radio Science Meeting - Leading the Wave, AP-S/URSI 2010
BT - 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and CNC-USNC/URSI Radio Science Meeting - Leading the Wave, AP-S/URSI 2010
T2 - 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and CNC-USNC/URSI Radio Science Meeting - Leading the Wave, AP-S/URSI 2010
Y2 - 11 July 2010 through 17 July 2010
ER -