Sidelobe reduction through element phase control in uniform subarrayed array antennas

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 437-440

  Rocca, Paolo ^a   Haupt, Randy L ^b   Massa, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Iterative projection method (IPM); Phase control; Subarrayed array antennas

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE EXCITATION; AMPLITUDE WEIGHTING; ARRAY ANTENNAS; ARRAY ELEMENTS; BEAM-STEERING; ITERATIVE PROJECTION METHOD (IPM); PROJECTION METHOD; SIDE-LOBE REDUCTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUB-ARRAYS; SUBARRAY;

ANTENNAS; PERMANENT MAGNETS; PHASE CONTROL; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 77952023962     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2009.2015899     Document Type: Article

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