Minimum sidelobe levels for linear arrays

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3442-3449

  Bevelacqua, Peter J ^a,b   Balanis, Constantine A ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Linear arrays; Minimum sidelobe level; Particle swarm optimization (PSO)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA LOBES; BEAMFORMING; OPTIMIZATION;

BEAMWIDTH; LINEAR ARRAY; MINIMUM SIDELOBE LEVEL; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 37249020451     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.910490     Document Type: Article

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