F. Obelleiro et al., DIRECTIVITY OPTIMIZATION OF AN ARRAY ANTENNA WITH OBSTACLES WITHIN ITS NEAR-FIELD REGION, Electronics Letters, 33(25), 1997, pp. 2087-2088
A method for synthesising an array antenna in order to obtain its maxi
mum directivity, when the antenna is in the presence of perfectly elec
tric conducting (PEG) bodies, is presented. The proposed solution is b
ased on the generalised multipole technique (GMT) combined with an opt
imum directivity (OD) technique. A closed form formulation is presente
d together with results which demonstrate the scanning capabilities of
the proposed method.