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      <journal-title>Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Research</journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2141-2367</issn>      <publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5897/JEEER2014.0504</article-id>
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        <article-title><![CDATA[Reduction of side lobe level in non-uniform circular antenna arrays using the simulated annealing algorithm]]></article-title>
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        		        	<name name-style="western">
	            <surname>A.</surname>
            <given-names>Zangene</given-names>
	          </name>	
        		        	<name name-style="western">
	            <surname>H.</surname>
            <given-names>R. Dalili Oskouei</given-names>
	          </name>	
        		        	<name name-style="western">
	            <surname>M.</surname>
            <given-names>Nourhoseini</given-names>
	          </name>	
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		<corresp id="cor1">* E-mail: <email xlink:type="simple">Amirhosein@aut.ac.ir</email></corresp>
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      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2014</year>
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      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
      	<day>14</day>
        <month>08</month>
        <year>2014</year>
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      			<date date-type="received">
			<day>14</day>
			<month>04</month>
			<year>2014</year>
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						<date date-type="accepted">
			<day>29</day>
			<month>07</month>
			<year>2014</year>
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      <volume>6</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
	  	  <fpage>6</fpage>
	  <lpage>12</lpage>
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      <abstract><![CDATA[This paper investigates the reduction of side lobe level in antenna arrays. Reduction of side lobe level in antenna arrays has some limitations including fixed width of the beam. We have modeled the side lobe level reduction as an optimization problem using simulated annealing technique for side lobe level reduction of a specific beam width. The advantage of this method compared with other methods is that it can get out of local minimums and converge to the optimized answer. Efficiency of simulated annealing algorithm in pattern extraction of desired circular antenna, which is used frequently in modern telecommunication and radar systems, is investigated and the results are compared with that of genetic and evolutionary algorithms.

	 

	Key words: Simulated annealing, antenna array, circular array, non-uniform antenna array, side lobe level.]]></abstract>
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