Title :
Method of null steering without using phase shifters
Author_Institution :
University of New South Wales, School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Sydney, Australia
fDate :
8/1/1984 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Null steering without using phase shifters is achieved by forcing the zeros of the array factor to occur in conjugate pairs on the unit circle in the complex plane. It is shown that if the number of jammers is much smaller than half the total number of elements in the array, it is possible to optimise the pattern as well as suppressing the jammers. Alternatively, wide nulls in the radiation pattern can be easily approximated.
Keywords :
antenna arrays; antenna radiation patterns; antenna theory; array factor; complex plane; conjugate pairs; jammers; linear antenna array; null steering; pattern nulling; radiation pattern; unit circle;
Journal_Title :
Microwaves, Optics and Antennas, IEE Proceedings H
DOI :
10.1049/ip-h-1.1984.0050