Fast measurement technique for phased array calibration

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1888-1899

  Takahashi, Toru ^a   Konishi, Yoshihiko ^a   Makino, Shigeru ^a,b   Ohmine, Hiroyuki ^a   Nakaguro, Hiromasa ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calibration; Fourier series; Measurement; Measurement errors; Phased arrays

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; CALIBRATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER SERIES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MEASUREMENTS; POWER CONVERTERS; RADAR;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENTS; ANTENNA ELEMENTS; CALIBRATION ACCURACY; CLOSED-FORM EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC FIELD VECTORS; FAST MEASUREMENT; FOURIER; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT METHODS; MULTIPLE ANTENNA (MA); MULTIPLE ELEMENTS; NO PHASE; ON-BOARD DIAGNOSTICS; PHASED ARRAY (PA) ANTENNA SYSTEMS; PHASED ARRAYS; PHASED-ARRAY ANTENNAS; POWER VARIATIONS; RE-CALIBRATION;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 47249108579     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.924682     Document Type: Article

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