A fast spectral-domain approach using Macro Basis Functions is proposed to directly obtain the reduced impedance matrix for large regular and irregular arrays with non-identical elements. The developed method is tested considering a designed reflectarray system, which consists of a large number of non-identical dipoles printed on a multilayered substrate. The computational complexity related to the reduced matrix filling time during a Method-of-Moments process is greatly reduced.
Jha, S. N., Craeye, C., & Hum, S. V. (2014). Fast MBF approach for reflectarray analysis. IEEE, 2595 - 2597 (6-11 April 2014 ). https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCAP.2014.6902352 (Original work published 2014)