A multiresolution approach to contoured-beam antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 3 I, 2007, Pages 684-697

  Vipiana, Francesca ^a   Vecchi, Giuseppe ^a   Sabbadini, Marco ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Array fed reflector antennas; Contoured beam antennas; Genetic algorithms; Multiresolution; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA REFLECTORS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MULTIRESOLUTION ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION;

ARRAY-FED REFLECTOR ANTENNAS; CONTOURED-BEAM ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 34047209351     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.891567     Document Type: Article

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