Title
Aperiodic antenna array for secondary lobe suppression
Date Issued
15 January 2016
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Gabrielli L.
Universidad Estatal de Campinas
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
We propose an aperiodic antenna array to suppress secondary radiation lobes in widely spaced arrays. We show that the use of Fermat's spiral as a template for the antenna array leads to similar results in terms of sidelobe level and bandwidth as those obtained by computationally expensive non-linear optimization methods. Furthermore, by maintaining the distances between neighbors approximately constant, the increase in array footprint is kept approximately within 25% of an equivalent periodic array, a key feature for space-constrained applications. Based on the straightforward computation of our method, we are able to present the results for arrays varying from 4 to 2048 elements and minimal spacing between the antennas up to ten wavelengths.
Start page
209
End page
212
Volume
28
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Sistemas de automatización, Sistemas de control
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85009216625
Source
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
ISSN of the container
10411135
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported in part by the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo under Project 2008/57857-2 and Project 2012/22517-2, in part by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico under Project 446746/2014-2 and Project 574017/2008-9, and in part by the Brazilian Science and Technology Institute FOTONICOM.
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