Designing broad-band patch antennas using the sequential quadratic programming method

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1689-1692

  Li, Zhifang ^a   Papalambros, Panos Y ^b   Volakis, John L ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Microstrip antennas

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BROADBAND PATCH ANTENNAS; GRADIENT BASED ALGORITHMS; SEQUENTIAL QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING (SQP) METHOD;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 0031268224     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.650081     Document Type: Article

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