Synthesis of a Uniformly Spaced Array with Symmetric Amplitude Excitation by a Weighted Least-Square Method

A new, non-iterative  technique for synthesizing equispaced linear arrays with symmetric excitation is proposed. The methods is on the computation of an  eigenvector of an appropriate real, Symmetric and positive-definite matrix. This technique can be used to determine, given a n complete description of the desired radiation pattern, the array excitation coefficients . These derived excitation will produce, either exactly or approximately, the wanted antenna radiation pattern, depending on its complexity and the number of my elements. A number of design  examples are presented to illustrate the practicality and the potential of the proposed method.