Submitting Campus

Daytona Beach

Department

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Document Type

Article

Publication/Presentation Date

12-2009

Abstract/Description

We present performance bounds obtained from the optimization of the sidelobe levels of aperiodic linear arrays. The antennas comprising these arrays are large compared to the distance between neighboring antennas, a case not addressed in previously published work. This optimization is performed in pattern-space and is applicable over a wide range of scan angles. We show that grating lobes can be suppressed even when the elemental antennas are several wavelengths in size, provided that the ratio of the antenna size to the average spacing between the antenna center-points does not exceed 80%.

Publication Title

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2008.2005364

Publisher

IEEE

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