On the design of differential loudspeaker arrays with broadside radiation patterns

Jiale Wang1, Wen Zhang1, Chao Pan1

  • 1Center of Intelligent Acoustics and Immersive Communications, School of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710072, China.

JASA Express Letters
|September 26, 2022
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