Designing Broadband LPDA-Fed Reflector Antennas With Full-Wave EM Simulation
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AI GeneratedThe white paper discusses a design methodology for wideband, high-gain LPDA-fed reflector antennas, focusing on establishing design requirements, utilizing advanced MoM techniques, and implementing a systematic three-step design strategy. It highlights the challenges in synthesizing and analyzing these antennas and introduces an advanced full-wave simulation methodology that reduces unknowns and demonstrates a practical design approach. The paper also emphasizes the importance of managing mutual coupling effects between the feed and reflector and provides validated results for reflector diameters across various bandwidth ratios. The methodology presented enables efficient simulation on standard desktop hardware with CPU/GPU acceleration.