Design of a uniform amplitude time modulated linear array with optimized time sequences

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2337-2339

  Yang, Shiwen ^a   Gan, Yeow Beng ^b   Qing, Anyong ^b   Tan, Peng Khiang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; Genetic algorithm (GA); Time modulation

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANTENNA LOBES; BANDWIDTH; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

AMPLITUDE TIME MODULATION; DIRECT OPTIMIZATION; LINEAR ARRAY; SIDEBAND LEVEL;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 23044498619     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.850765     Document Type: Article

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