Sidelobe level and wideband behavior of arrays of random subarrays

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2253-2262

  Kerby, Kiersten C ^a   Bernhard, Jennifer T ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; Random arrays; Subarrays; Wideband arrays

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA LOBES; BANDWIDTH; CALCULATIONS; DESIGN; GEOMETRY; PROBABILITY;

RANDOM ARRAYS; SUBARRAYS; WIDEBAND ARRAYS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 33747591906     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.879195     Document Type: Article

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