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Abstract

In this paper, a standard cell radiation pattern is selected to accelerate the synthesis of a large-scale arrays pattern. The radiation patterns distortion of each cell in array is transformed to the additive perturbation in the array manifold matrix of the antenna array, and the weighted total least squares method is developed to solve this matrix problem. The examples of several antenna arrays are presented to verify the method. Benefiting from the direct solution of matrix with the standard cell's radiation pattern, the method is low in computation cost and fast in speed.

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