On the empirical optimization of antenna arrays

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 58-67

  Blank, Stephen Jon ^a   Hutt, Michael F ^b  

^a NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Hutt Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Admittance matrix; Antenna arrays; Electromagnetic coupling; Impedance matrix; Non uniformly spaced arrays; Optimization methods; Phased arrays

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTRIC ADMITTANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION;

ADMITTANCE MATRIX; ELECTROMAGNETIC COUPLING; IMPEDANCE MATRIX; NONUNIFORMLY SPACED ARRAYS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 23944454591     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2005.1487780     Document Type: Article

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