Contributions on Beam-Forming Networks

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue provides an international forum for researchers working in the antenna systems field to disseminate new ideas and recent advances on beam-forming networks (BFN), simulations, and applications. Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• Subarray techniques;
• Overlapping;
• Advances in Blass, Nolen, and Butler matrixes;
• Rotman lenses;
• Coherently radiating periodic structures;
• Innovative beam-forming techniques;
• Photonics beam-forming networks;
• BFN for focusing systems, lenses, and reflectors;
• Reflectarrays, transmitarrays;
• Dielectric waveguides, wide-band and multi-band feeds, integrated feeds and receivers, etc.;
• Metallo(-dielectric) beam-formers and discrete lenses;
• Purely dielectric lenses (lens antennas and substrate lenses);
• (Shaped) constrained lenses;
• Flat lenses.

The applications of these systems are highly linked with the current needs of communication; thus, papers on future applications are more than welcome.

Dr. Marco A. Panduro
Guest Editor

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