A Simple Algorithm to Achieve Desired Patterns for Arbitrary Arrays

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 1992, Pages 2737-2746

  Tseng, Ching Yih ^a   Griffiths, Lloyd J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

ARBITRARY ARRAYS; NONUNIFORM ARRAY GEOMETRIES; RADIATION PATTERNS; SIDELOBE PHASE VALUE;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0026943262     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: 19410476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.165660     Document Type: Article

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