Phase synthesis of conformai array antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 987-991

  Vaskelainen, Leo I ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; Antenna pattern synthesis; Conformal antennas

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE SHIFTERS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANTENNA PATTERN SYNTHESIS; CONFORMAL ARRAY ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 0034206041     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.865234     Document Type: Article

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