Ultrawideband aperiodic antenna arrays based on optimized raised power series representations

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 756-764

  Gregory, Micah D ^a   Werner, Douglas H ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Aperiodic arrays; Genetic algorithm; Raised power series; Ultrawideband arrays

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAY DESIGN; ANTENNA ELEMENT; APERIODIC ARRAYS; APERIODIC TILINGS; APERIODICITY; BEAM-SHAPING; DESIGN ISSUES; FULL-WAVE SIMULATIONS; GRATING LOBES; HALF-WAVE DIPOLE; LINEAR ARRAYS; MATHEMATICAL CONSTRUCTS; OPERATING FREQUENCY; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; POWER SERIES; RADIATING ELEMENTS; RAISED POWER SERIES; RECURSIVE APPLICATIONS; SIDE-LOBE SUPPRESSION; SIDELOBE LEVELS; SUB-ARRAYS; WIDEBAND PERFORMANCE;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BANDWIDTH; FRACTALS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 77749324844     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2039315     Document Type: Article

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