Off-broadside main beam design for frequency invariant beamformers

2008 International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas, WSA 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 190-194

  Liu, Wei ^a   Weiss, Stephan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Broadband arrays; Frequency invariant beamforming; Off broadside main beam

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; ANTENNAS; BEAMFORMING; FIR FILTERS; SMART ANTENNAS;

BEAM DESIGN; BROADBAND ARRAYS; DELAY FILTERS; DESIGN METHODS; FREQUENCY INVARIANT BEAMFORMERS; FREQUENCY INVARIANT BEAMFORMING; OFF-BROADSIDE MAIN BEAM;

WAVE FILTERS;

EID: 49749134390     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSA.2008.4475558     Document Type: Conference Paper

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