Design of a Six-Sector Switched Parasitic Planar Array Using the Method of Genetic Algorithms

Wireless Personal Communications

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 77-88

  Varlamos, Pantelis K ^a   Capsalis, Christos N ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Electronic beam steering; Genetic algorithms; Smart antennas; Switched parasitic arrays

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; BANDWIDTH; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

SMART ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0141494264     PISSN: 09296212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025329912599     Document Type: Article

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