Element failure correction for a large monopulse phased array antenna with active amplitude weighting

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2211-2218

  Keizer, Will P M N ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antenna pattern synthesis; Element failure correction; Phased arrays

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC EXCITATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GAIN CONTROL; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ANTENNA PATTERN SYNTHESIS; ELEMENT FAILURE CORRECTION; LARGE MONOPULSE PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS; PLANAR ARRAY ANTENNAS; VARIABLE GAIN CONTROL;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 34548154527     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.902008     Document Type: Article

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