Optimum Synthesis of Pencil Beams with Constrained Dynamic Range Ratio

Table 7

Properties of proposed pencil beam arrays with 30 elements and beamwidth of 12°, compared with array having maximum efficiency and unconstrained DRR [16]. Improvements are highlighted in bold.

Figure of merit	[16]	Proposed, D = 6	Proposed, D = 2.5
Beam efficiency, %	99.9	99.8	98.8
Directivity, dB	13.6	13.8	14.3
Dynamic range ratio	13.5	6.0	2.5