High-performance uniformly excited linear and planar arrays based on linear semiarrays composed of subarrays with different uniform spacings

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4002-4006

  Álvarez Folgueiras, Marcos ^a   Rodríguez González, Juan A ^a   Ares Pena, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Subarrays; Unequally spaced antenna arrays; Uniformly excited linear and planar arrays

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL ADVANTAGES; NONUNIFORM; PENCIL BEAM; PLANAR ARRAYS; SIDE LOBES; SIDELOBE LEVELS; SUBARRAYS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

ARRAY PROCESSING;

EID: 72649092907     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2026497     Document Type: Article

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