DocumentCode
899766
Title
A method for removing blindness in phased arrays
Author
Lo, Y.T. ; Agrawal, Vishwani D.
Volume
56
Issue
9
fYear
1968
Firstpage
1586
Lastpage
1588
Abstract
In periodic phased arrays, due to the mutual coupling effect, there is a sharp dip in radiation at a certain scan angle, thus causing the so-called blindness phenomenon. It is shown that by using random (or other aperiodic) arrays, this adverse effect can be almost completely removed.
Keywords
Antenna arrays; Antenna radiation patterns; Blindness; Mutual coupling; Optimization methods; Phased arrays; Signal synthesis; Symmetric matrices; Transmission line matrix methods; Vectors;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Proceedings of the IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9219
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/PROC.1968.6649
Filename
1448579
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