Optimum Synthesis of Pencil Beams with Constrained Dynamic Range Ratio

Table 6

Properties of proposed pencil beam arrays with 16 elements and beamwidth of 20°, compared with array having maximum efficiency and unconstrained DRR [16]. Improvements are highlighted in bold.

Figure of merit	[16]	Proposed, D = 4	Proposed, D = 2
Beam efficiency, %	99.8	99.6	98.0
Directivity, dB	11.1	11.3	11.8
Dynamic range ratio	7.3	4.0	2.0