TY - GEN Y1 - 2009/08// KW - Thinned arrays KW - particle swarm optimizer (PSO) KW - sidelobe control KW - difference sets A1 - Donelli, Massimo A1 - Martini, Anna A1 - Massa, Andrea TI - A Hybrid Approach Based on PSO and Hadamard Difference Sets for the Synthesis of Square Thinned Arrays AV - public N2 - A hybrid approach for the synthesis of planar thinned antenna arrays is presented. The proposed solution exploits and combines the most attractive features of a particle swarm algorithm and those of a combinatorial method based on the noncyclic difference sets of Hadamard type. Numerical experiments validate the proposed solution, showing improvements with respect to previous results. (c) 2009 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other users, including reprinting/ republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted components of this work in other works. ID - elediasc12388 UR - http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/388/ ER -