An effective approach for the optimal focusing of array fields subject to arbitrary upper bounds

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1837-1847

  Isernia, Tommaso ^a   Iorio, Paolo Di ^a   Soldovieri, Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antenna synthesis; Arrays; Near field constraints; Optimal focusing; Optimal synthesis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

NEAR FIELD CONSTRAINTS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0034458969     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.901272     Document Type: Article

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