Low sidelobe arrays via dipole rotation

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1575-1579

  Haupt, Randy L ^a   Aten, Daniel W ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; Genetic algorithms; Planar arrays; Polarization; Sidelobe suppression

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; POLARIZATION;

CROSS-POLARIZED; LOW SIDE LOBES; PLANAR ARRAYS; POLARIZATION PATTERNS; SIDE LOBES; SIDE-LOBE SUPPRESSION;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 67349255972     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2016787     Document Type: Article

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