“…However, its actual radiation performance is different from an ideal one due to the existence of random errors. Random errors
3 are related to several factors such as manufacturing tolerance, component aging, and harsh environments, which may cause severe degradation of the radiation characteristics in terms of sidelobe level (SLL), realized gain, and main beam pointing direction
4–6 . This issue is more severe if the number of array elements is small, for example, no more than
.…”