Boresight slope optimization of subarrayed linear arrays through the contiguous partition method

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 253-257

  Manica, Luca ^a   Rocca, Paolo ^a   Pastorino, Matteo ^a   Massa, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Boresight slope; Monopulse array antennas; Sum and difference patterns

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVABLE PERFORMANCE; ARRAY ANTENNAS; BORESIGHT; DIFFERENCE PATTERNS; LINEAR ARRAYS; MATCHING TECHNIQUES; MONOPULSE; MONOPULSE ANTENNA; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PARTITION METHODS; SUB-ARRAYS;

ANTENNAS; OPTIMIZATION;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 77952092581     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2008.2005120     Document Type: Article

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