Method and apparatus for wideband planar arrays implemented with a polyomino subarray architecture

A method of producing wide band planar array antenna designs, said method comprising the steps of:

• producing a plurality of polyomino tilings each including an array of a plurality of irregular shaped polyomino subarrays of elements, wherein the step of producing polyomino tilings includes using a tiling computer code stored in a computer readable storage device and executed by a computer to generate the polyomino tilings, wherein the irregular shaped polyomino subarrays of elements are contained within a rectangular boundary with no two polyominos overlapping and no polyomino extending past the rectangular boundary;
• converting the tilings to a set of antenna array designs by assigning design values to each element in the arrays, wherein the design values include at least phase shift, time delay and attenuation;
• and
• analyzing the entire set of designs to allow comparing the performance of the antenna array designs.

A method of using a polyomino tiling to produce a wide band planar array antenna design, said method comprising the steps of:

• producing a polyomino tiling including an array of a plurality of irregular shaped polyomino subarrays of elements that are contained within a rectangular boundary, wherein the step of producing a polyomino tiling includes using a tiling computer code stored in a computer readable storage device and executed by a computer to generate a polyomino tiling;
• wherein no two polyominos overlap and no polyomino extends past the rectangular boundary;
• and
• converting the polyomino tiling to an antenna array design by assigning design values to each element in the array, wherein the design values include at least phase shift, time delay, and attenuation.