TY  - GEN
TI  - On the Impact of Mutual Coupling Effects on the PSL Performances of ADS Thinned Arrays
A1  - Oliveri, Giacomo
A1  - Manica, Luca
A1  - Massa, Andrea
KW  - Array Antennas
KW  -  Thinned Arrays
KW  -  Linear Arrays
KW  -  Almost Difference Sets
KW  -  Mutual Coupling
KW  -  Sidelobe Control
Y1  - 2009/01//
ID  - elediasc12470
UR  - http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/470/
N2  - In this paper, the performances of thinned arrays based on Almost Difference Sets are analyzed in the presence of mutual coupling effects. The geometry under test is composed by thin dipole elements and the arising mutual interactions are modeled by means of the induced EMF method. To assess the robustness of the ADS-based thinning technique also in such a non-ideal case, an extensive numerical analysis is carried out by considering several test cases characterized by different aperture sizes, lattice spacings, and thinning factors. The obtained results show that the peak sidelobe estimators deduced in the ideal case still keep their validity although, as expected, a deterioration usually arises due to the mutual coupling. The final version of this article is available at the url of the journal PIERB http://www.jpier.org/PIERB/
AV  - public
ER  -