Rectangular thinned arrays based on McFarland difference sets

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1546-1552

  Oliveri, Giacomo ^a   Caramanica, Federico ^a   Fontanari, Claudio ^a   Massa, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Difference sets (DS); McFarland sequences; peak sidelobe level (PSL); planar arrays; thinned arrays

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENCE SETS; MCFARLAND SEQUENCES; PEAK SIDELOBE LEVEL (PSL); PLANAR ARRAYS; THINNED ARRAY;

ARRAY PROCESSING; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

BINARY SEQUENCES;

EID: 79955589597     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2123072     Document Type: Article

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