• DocumentCode
    1246114
  • Title

    Average sidelobe levels in corporate-feed arrays

  • Author

    Milligan, T. ; Schuman, H.K.

  • Author_Institution
    Milligan & Assoc., Littleton, CO
  • Volume
    37
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    12/1/1995 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    82
  • Lastpage
    85
  • Abstract
    The article looks at the practical aspect of tolerances on antenna design. We all know that our designs need to work after the variations caused by manufacturing. Tight tolerances are costly. The author takes us inside the feed network of an array, and shows the effects of errors, at different levels of the network, on the sidelobe performance. We can then specify the different parts properly, and produce antennas at the lowest cost
  • Keywords
    antenna arrays; antenna feeds; antenna radiation patterns; antenna design; average sidelobe levels; corporate feed arrays; errors; feed network; manufacturing variations; sidelobe performance; tolerances; Antenna arrays; Antenna radiation patterns; Apertures; Azimuth; Decorrelation; Equations; Feeds; Linear antenna arrays; Pattern recognition;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1045-9243
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/74.482074
  • Filename
    482074