Design of corrugated horn antennas by evolutionary optimization techniques

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 276-279

  Jamnejad, Vahraz ^a   Hoorfar, Ahmad ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corrugated horns; Evolutionary programming (EP) algorithms; Feed horns; Optimization techniques; Reflector antennas

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CORRUGATED HORNS; DEEP SPACE COMMUNICATIONS; FEED HORNS; REFLECTOR ANTENNAS;

HORN ANTENNAS;

EID: 11944257790     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2004.836122     Document Type: Article

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