Synthesis of very large planar arrays for prescribed footprint illumination

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 584-589

  Ares, F ^a   Fondevila Gomez, J ^a   Franceschetti, G ^b,c   Moreno Piquero, E ^a   Rodriguez Gonzalez, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna array pattern synthesis; Footprint patterns; Orchard Elliott Stern (OES) method; Planar arrays; Woodward Lawson (WL) method

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); OPTIMIZATION;

FOOTPRINT PATTERNS; ORCHARD-ELLIOTT-STERN (OES) METHOD; PLANAR ARRAYS; WOODWARD-LAWSON (WL) METHOD;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 40549120662     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.915472     Document Type: Article

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