The phase error and beam-pointing error in coupled oscillator beam-steering arrays

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 1 II, 2005, Pages 386-393

  Shen, Jinjin ^a,b   Pearson, L Wilson ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVSYS Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna array; Beam pointing error; Coupled oscillator array; Phase error

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA LOBES; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; VECTORS;

BEAM POINTING ERROR; COUPLED OSCILLATOR ARRAY; PHASE ERROR;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 13244269933     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.838792     Document Type: Article

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