Synthesis of Antenna Arrays of Maximum Directivity for a Specified Beamwidth

Abstract

Linear antenna arrays are synthesized to have maximum directivity for a specified beamwidth. The directivity is maximized subject to a given beamwidth such as null to null or half power one. The excitation currents are obtained using a matrix equation obtained from the Lagrange multiplier method. The performance of the proposed method is studied by means of some examples. The synthesized arrays have the pre-specified beamwhidths and their directivity is close to the number of elements.

Keywords

• antenna array synthesis
• maximum-directivity arrays
• specified beamwidth arrays.