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Generalising the Yagi-Uda Antenna: Designing Disordered Metamaterials to Manipulate Antenna Radiation
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Next generation microwave communications systems face several challenges, particularly from congested communications frequencies and complex propagation environments. Taking inspiration from the Yagi-Uda antenna, we present, and experimentally test, a framework based on the coupled dipole approximation for designing structures composed of a single simple emitter with a passive disordered scattering structure of rods that is optimised to provide a desired radiation pattern. Our numerical method provides an efficient way to model, and then design and test, otherwise inaccessibly large scattering systems.