Synthesis and Optimization of Almost Periodic Antennas Using Floquet Modal Analysis and MoM-GEC Method

This paper presented a new Floquet analysis used to calculate the radiation for 1-D and 2-D coupled periodic antenna systems. In this way, an accurate evaluation of mutual coupling can be proven by using a new mutual interaction expression that was based on Fourier analysis. Then, this work indicated how Floquet analysis can be used to study a finite array with uniform amplitude and linear phase distribution in both x and y directions. To modelize the proposed structures, two formulations were given in a spectral and spatial domain, where the Moment (MoM) method combined with a generalized equivalent circuit (GEC) method was applied. Radiation pattern of coupled periodic antenna was shown by varying many parameters, such as frequencies, distance and Floquet states. The 3-D radiation beam of the coupled antenna array was analyzed and compared in several steering angles s θ and coupling values x d . The simulation of this structure demonstrated that directivity decreased at higher coupling values. The secondary lobs in the antenna radiation pattern affected the main lobe gain by energy dispersal and considerable increasing of side lobe level (SLL) may be achieved. Therefore, the sweeping of the radiation beam in several steering directions affected the electromagnetic performance of the antenna system: the directivity at the steering angle π 3 s θ = was more damaged and had 19.99 dB while the second at 0 s θ = had about 35.11 dB. This parametric study of coupled structure used to concept smart periodic antenna with sweeping radiation beam.


Introduction
From the early days of communication systems, antenna arrays have been wide-

Formulation of 1D Periodic Antenna Array
In this section the formulation of the problem is illustrated in detail.A Floquet theory is proposed to reduce the infinite domain to a single cell with periodic walls.An electrical field is then formulated and solved through a MoM-GEC [20] [21] approach in a spectral domain [22] [23] [24] [25].The structure under analysis is shown in Figure 1.The excitation is given by an 0 E voltage source placed in the middle of a metallic patch.The width and the length of patches are w and l.The spatial period along the x direction is x d .The height of dielectric substance is h, and its relative permittivity r ε is mounted on aground plane.
This structure is taken as infinite in ( X ± ) and periodic with a period x d .( ) represents an electric field reacting with this periodicity.
Each Floquet phase corresponds to a Floquet state, and the function m F α characterizes all possible states.
( ) where α and m correspond respectively to Floquet mode and spectral domain mode.The α values are in Brillouin domain . And for N discrete values of α , p α are given by: where The electric field of the central cell in spacial domain is m E  .We associate the electric field E α  in spectral domain, which models all waves emitted from oth- er cells of periodic structure.
( ) Then ( ) The spectral domain MoM-GEC technique can be applied for this single cell with periodic walls to extract the electromagnetic parameter.The pertinent Journal of Electromagnetic Analysis and Applications problem of the use an electric field integral equation can be solved by applying the GEC method.It can replace the integral equation by a simple equivalent circuit in the discontinuity surface and applies the laws of tension and current to extract the relation between electric and current field by using an admittance operator [2] [3] [14] [15].The discontinuity surface contains metallic and dielectric parties.The equivalent circuit of the unit cell is shown in Figure 2. The virtual electric field is defined on the metallic surface and is null on the dielectric part.We note that e E α its dual.Similar examples are found in [28] [29]   [30].
From this circuit, we can deduce this system: The equivalent admittance operator is: The matrix form of the former equation can be developed as following: where A is the excitation vector and B is the coupling matrix.The test courant functions in metallic part are pq g .
The resolution of the previous system consequently helps to calculate the virtual electric field e E α and the electric far field Rad E  of the coupled structure.

Formulation 2-D Periodic Antenna Arrays
We take the example of 2-D planar periodic structures of x d periodicity along Floquet modal analysis reduces spacial electromagnetic calculus of 2-D periodic structure to a spectral calculus in a new modal base which gathers all possible phases in periodic walls.In this case, we consider the 2-D dimensional case along the x-and y-axis with ( ) N N * identical cells, where each one is excited by a located source.The two phases α and β belong respectively to the Brillouin domain: , . The discretization of Floquet mode provides the following: , where p and q are two integer and L N d = * .From these Floquet phases, we associate two fields E αβ and J αβ which model all waves emitted from others cells of the periodic structure.
The discontinuity surface contains metallic and dielectric parties.The excitation E αβ of the central path produces a current field J αβ .This virtual magnetic field e J αβ is defined on the metallic surface and is null on the dielectric part.We note that e E αβ is its dual.The electric field mn J can be developed as following: From this equivalent circuit, we can deduce the following system: Then The equivalent admittance operator is: , pq mn g f and can be developed as the following: So, we can deduce the following system: where A is the excitation vector and B is the coupling matrix.

Studie of Floquet States
In this section, we present a Floquet modal analysis of periodic antenna array.
As an example we simulate and design a structure of four linear elements using matlab software.We extract all possible Floquet modes ( ) , α β ; and we show their influence on pattern radiation.Results are presented for the following parameters: 1 The behavior of magnetic field for one reference cell is shown in Figure 4. Table 1 illustrates the performance parameter (side lobe level, peak gain and directivity) of radiation pattern for each Floquet mode.Refer to [32] [33] [34] for details.The radiation pattern plot in Figure 5 obtained by using Floquet modal method demonstrates the aptitude of this technique to superpose all Floquet modes ( ) and their superposition tot E for different steering an- gles s θ [35] [36].
The electromagnetic parameters of each Floquet mode ( ) , , , α α α α − − of this periodic structure are compared in Table 1.The simulation of this periodic structure demonstrates that each Floquet mode defines the mutual coupling of the adjacent cell.The superposition of all Floquet modes represents the evolution of pattern radiation of the reference cell coupled with all others cells.

Frequency and Coupling Effect
In this section, we present and briefly discuss several results of the radiation pattern on an open structure analyzed in the previous section.The simulated radiation Table 1.Performance Parameters of the 1-D periodic structure for each Floquet mode.MoM-CEG method.From these results, the radiation pattern was calculated using the conventional method of the stationary phase.It can be observed that the evolution of the pattern radiation for different values of the frequency from 4 to 10 GHz is not the same, but they have a similar behavior.By exploiting this figure, at F = 4 GHz, a low directivity is achieved with high power Pmax (the power in decibel between the maximum of main lobe and the maximum of secondary lobs) with 40 dB and at 10 GHz, a high directivity is achieved with low power Pmax with 10 dB.We deduce then that the diagram becomes increasingly selective by increasing the frequency, but at the same time, the amplitude of the secondary lobes increases.
Figure 7 shows the influence of coupling value on radiation pattern in relation to wavelength.For x d λ = , the power Pmax is 30 dB, but for 3 , the power Pmax is 10 dB.From these results, we can deduce that the pattern radiation of this structure becomes more directive when the period dx increases compared to wavelength λ .
In this example, on 1-D periodic array four planar antennas is discussed.The amplitude of each excitation and the phase difference of neighboring cell are identicals.The radiation simulation shown in Figure 6 and Figure 7 reveals that the behavior of radiation pattern is acceptable with MoM-GEC method combined to Floquet theory and large separation between elements is needed for high directivity.

Coupling Effect
In this section, we study the influence of the coupling and the steering direction on the electromagnetic parameters of our periodic structure.2.

Steering Directions Effect
Figure 9 shows a 3-D beam radiation of the coupled structure in the high coupling value ( ) Electromagnetic performance parameters of this coupled structure in different steered directions s θ are shown in Table 3 for high and low coupling values.
In the previous section, we evaluated periodic antennas with uniform spatial periodicity and equitable amplitude distribution.The study of coupling and angular scanning leads us to design an intelligent antenna with a sweeping beam.
The purpose of this design is to lead the radiation to the desired direction of space without affecting the radiation characteristics.The effect of the secondary lobes in the antenna radiation pattern is virtually undesirable because it affects Journal of Electromagnetic Analysis and Applications   the main lobe gain by energy dispersal and also disturbs the second radiant element.Therefore, a condition regarding the spacing of sources must be imposed.

Conclusion
In this contribution, we have presented a theoretical analysis of 1-D and 2-D periodic antennas.A novel modal approach combined with MoM-GEC was used.
The behavior of pattern radiation of the coupled reference cell has been illustrated corresponding to different frequency ranges, period value and Floquet

Figure 2 .
Figure 2. Equivalent circuit in spectral domain with MoM-CEM method of unit cell.
base propagation mode functions.The previous matrix presentation is projected under base and test functions ( )

Figure 8 shows a 3 -
Figure 8 shows a 3-D beam radiation of the coupled structure in the steered direction 0 s θ = for different coupling states

Figure 9 .
Figure 9.The 3-D radiation beam pattern of proposed antenna array at different steering directions s θ in

Figure 10
Figure 10 represents respectively the variation of the directivity and the side lobe level for several distances d and for several steering directions s θ .For the working frequency 10 GHz F = , the spacing d between the sources must exceed 2 56 mm λ =

Table 2 .
The Performance Parameters for Different Coupling Values x d of the 1-D periodic structure.

Table 3 .
The performance parameters for different steering directions s 37Journal of Electromagnetic Analysis and Applications