A New Low Sidelobe Pattern Synthesis Technique for Conformal Arrays

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 824-831

  Jiao, Yong Chang ^a   Wei, Wen Yuan ^a   Huang, Li Wei ^a   Wu, Hong Shi ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNA RADIATION; CONFORMAL MAPPING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CYLINDRICAL ANTENNAS; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; GAIN CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

CONFORMAL ARRAYS; LOW SIDELOBE PATTERN SYNTHESIS; REALIZED GAIN PATTERNS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0027612028     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.250466     Document Type: Article

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