Harnessing superdirectivity in dielectric spherical multilayer antennas
arXiv:2104.00534 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.104.195406
Abstract
Small form-factor, narrowband, and highly directive antennas are of critical importance in a variety of applications spanning wireless communications, remote sensing, Raman spectroscopy, and single photon emission enhancement. Surprisingly, we show that the classical directivity limit can be appreciably surpassed for electrically small multilayer spherical antennas excited by a point electric dipole even if limiting ourselves to purely dielectric materials. Experimentally feasible designs of superdirective antennas are established by using a stochastic optimization algorithm combined with a rigorous analytic solution.
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