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creators_name: Manica, Luca
creators_name: Rocca, Paolo
creators_name: Massa, Andrea
title: On the Synthesis of Sub-arrayed Planar Array Antennas for Tracking Radar Applications
ispublished: pub
subjects: TU
full_text_status: public
keywords: Monopulse Antennas, Large Planar Arrays, Compromise Pattern Synthesis, Sum and Difference Beams
abstract: The synthesis of compromise sum and difference patterns of large planar arrays is addressed in this letter by means of a suitable implementation of the Contiguous Partition Method (CPM). By exploiting some properties of the solution space, the generation of compromise sum-difference patterns is recast as the searching of the optimal path in a graph that codes the admissible solution space. Some numerical experiments are provided in order to assess the effectiveness of the proposed method. (c) 2008 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.
date: 2011-01
date_type: published
institution: University of Trento
department: informaticat
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Manica, Luca and Rocca, Paolo and Massa, Andrea  (2011) On the Synthesis of Sub-arrayed Planar Array Antennas for Tracking Radar Applications.  [Technical Report]     
document_url: http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/452/1/DISI-11-045.R151.pdf