Research Article

Synthesis of Thinned Planar Concentric Circular Antenna Arrays Using a Modified Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

Table 5

Results obtained by different methods with the interelement arc spacing (dc) of each ring is made uniform and the same but is not fixed.

ArrayPSLL (dB)BW (deg)dcSwitched off elements

Fully array−17.374.50.5λ0
BBO [16]−26.604.40.5296λ230
FA [1]−30.194.40.5732λ226
SOS [3, 16]−31.180.5903λ232
MABC−33.624.50.5801λ236