Reconfigurability and beam scanning with phase-only control for antenna arrays

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1555-1565

  Vescovo, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Constrained beam scanning; Phase only control; Power synthesis; Projections; Reconfigurable arrays

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; CANTILEVER BEAMS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; NUMBER THEORY; SCANNING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SET THEORY;

ARBITRARY GEOMETRIES; ARRAY ELEMENTS; ARRAY PATTERNS; BEAM SCANNING; DYNAMIC RANGE (DR); EXCITATION AMPLITUDES; EXCITATION VECTORS; NEW METHODS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; PHASE-ONLY; RE CONFIGURABILITY; RECONFIGURABLE ARRAYS; SCANNING BEAMS; SYNTHESIS (OF CHIRAL IONIC LIQUIDS); SYNTHESIS PROBLEMS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 45549098646     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.923297     Document Type: Article

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