Synthesis of Nonuniformly Spaced Arrays Using a General Nonlinear Minimax Optimization Method

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1976, Pages 501-506

  Schjaer Jacobsen H J ^a   Madsen, K ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - OPTIMIZATION;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 0016975554     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.1976.1141369     Document Type: Article

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