Topology Design Optimization of Dielectric Substrates for Bandwidth Improvement of a Patch Antenna

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 10 I, 2003, Pages 2732-2743

  Kiziltas, Gullu ^a   Psychoudakis, Dimitris ^a   Volakis, John L ^a   Kikuchi, Noboru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Broad bandantenna; Materialdesign; Miniaturization; Thermoplastic green machining; Topology optimization

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DATA PROCESSING; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

THERMOPLASTIC GREEN MACHINING;

BROADCASTING ANTENNAS;

EID: 0142063040     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.817539     Document Type: Article

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