Harmonic beamforming in time-modulated linear arrays

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2538-2545

  Poli, Lorenzo ^a   Rocca, Paolo ^a   Oliveri, Giacomo ^a   Massa, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Harmonic beams; particle swarm optimization; time modulated linear arrays

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA APERTURE; DIFFERENCE PATTERNS; FLAT-TOP; HARMONIC BEAMS; HARMONIC FREQUENCY; LINEAR ARRAYS; MULTIBEAMS; MULTIPLE BEAM; NARROW BEAMS; OPTIMIZATION STRATEGY; PARTICLE SWARM; PARTICLE SWARM ALGORITHM; STATIC EXCITATION; UNDESIRABLE EFFECTS;

ARRAY PROCESSING; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MULTIBEAM ANTENNAS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 79960140713     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2152323     Document Type: Article

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