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Hybrid beamforming with reduced grating lobes for satellite applications

Tugend et al., 2018

Document ID
4398125190016514485
Author
Tugend V
Thain A
Publication year
Publication venue
12th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2018)

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Very High Throughput Satellite missions require large aperture antennas to provide narrow beams. In order to avoid the production of grating lobes it is necessary to respect a given element separation, which is a function of scan angle. Together with the wide aperture this …
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