Synthesis of sparse planar arrays

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 1834-1835

  Trucco, A ^a   Omodei, E ^a   Repetto, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic imaging; Beamfarming arrays

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ITERATIVE METHODS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

APERIODIC PLANAR ARRAYS; BEAMFORMING ARRAYS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0031245484     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19971261     Document Type: Article

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