A Flexible Array Synthesis Method using Quadratic Programming

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 1993, Pages 1541-1550

  Ng, Boon Poh ^a   Er, Meng Hwa ^b   Kot, Chichung ^b  

^a SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA RADIATION; CHEBYSHEV APPROXIMATION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIALS;

CHEBYSHEV POLYNOMIAL; FLEXIBLE ARRAY SYNTHESIS METHOD; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0027694922     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.267354     Document Type: Article

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