A single-channel microstrip electronic tracking antenna array with time sequence phase weighting on sub-array

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 253-258

  Wang, H ^a   Fang, D G ^a   Li, M ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Electronic tracking; Microstrip monopulse antenna; Single channel; Time sequence phase weighting (TSPW); Walsh Hadamard transform

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC TRACKING; MICROSTRIPES; MONOPULSE ANTENNA; SINGLE CHANNELS; TIME SEQUENCES; WALSH HADAMARD TRANSFORMS;

ANTENNAS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 76849086720     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2009.2037854     Document Type: Article

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