Analytic-Based Synthesis of Tiled Arrays

The partitioning of phased arrays into tiles reduces significantly the costs of the whole system and allows an easy assembly and maintenance of the antenna. Because of the deployment of phased arrays in many civil radar and communication systems is becoming very attractive, due to the electronic steering and reconfigurability, efficient synthesis techniques able to effectively optimize the tiling configuration and the feeding network control points are of great interest in the antenna community. This work aims at reviewing recent synthesis methods for tiled arrays, focusing on analytic-based techniques, and exploiting recent mathematical tiling theory for an efficient synthesis of tiled arrays.