Design of steerable non-uniform linear array geometry for side-lobe reduction

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 363-367

  Bae, Ji Hoon ^a   Kim, Kyung Tae ^b   Lee, Joon He ^a   Kim, Hyo Tae ^c   Choi, Jae Ick ^a  

^a Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^b Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

^c Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Antenna array pattern synthesis; Non uniform spacing; Optimization technique; Side lobe reduction

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; ANTENNA LOBES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

GAUSS-NEWTON METHOD; NONUNIFORM LINEAR ARRAY; PATTERN DISTORTION; PATTERN SYNTHESIS METHOD; SIDE LOBE REDUCTION;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0037420155     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.10765     Document Type: Article

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