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Abstract In recent years, researchers have been interested in the synthesis of pencil beam and arbitrarily shaped b patterns of linear antenna arrays (LAA) utilizing a smaller number of antenna components. For LAAs synthesis, a hybrid beamforming methodology based on a combination of the genetic algorithm (GA) optimization technique and the l1 minimization method is proposed, designated as GA=l1. In this thesis, the suggested GA=l1 beamforming approach optimizes both element excitations and interelement spacing to synthesize the required LAA pattern with the smallest possible number of antenna elements. In comparison to the previous synthesis techniques presented in literature. |