J4 ›› 2011, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (5): 142-146.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-2400.2011.05.023

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Fast iterative method for the synthesis of the base-station antenna's shaped beam

DENG Jingya1;ZHANG Xiaomiao2;YIN Yingzeng2;LIU Qizhong2   

  1. (1. School of Science, Xidian Univ., Xi'an  710071, China;
    2. Science and Technology on Antenna and Microwave Lab., Xidian Univ., Xi'an  710071, China)
  • Received:2010-08-25 Online:2011-10-20 Published:2012-01-14
  • Contact: DENG Jingya E-mail:dengjingya_1984@yahoo.com.cn

Abstract:

For the requirements of upper sidelobes suppression and lower null-fills of the base-station antennas' shaped beam, a fast iterative method for the synthesis of a pattern with specified levels of upper sidelobes and lower nulls is studied. Brent's method is used to iterate the extrema's positions with the specified levels of sidelobes and nulls of the power pattern's expression, the factorized expression of the pattern can be obtained according to final positions of zeros, and the coefficient of each term is the excitation coefficient with phase information. This method is much more efficient and consumes much less time than optimization methods which are normally used presently. A 10 unit array's pattern is synthesized using an element, and the pattern is confirmed by the result of HFSS simulation. The performances of upper sidelobes suppression and lower null-fills are good, showing that the iterative method presented in this paper is a fast and useful pattern synthesis method for base station antennas.

Key words: base station antennas, shaped beam antennas, sidelobe reduction, null fill, Brent's method

CLC Number: 

  • TN820