Design of circular switched parasitic dipole arrays using a genetic algorithm

International Journal of Wireless Information Networks

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 201-206

  Varlamos, Pantelis K ^a   Papakanellos, Panagiotis J ^a   Capsalis, Christos N ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Circular switched parasitic dipole arrays; Electronic beam steering; Genetic algorithms; Induced EMF method; Method of moments

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); INTERSYMBOL INTERFERENCE; METHOD OF MOMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS; SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

ANTENNA DESIGN; CIRCULAR SWITCHED PARASITIC DIPOLE ARRAYS; ELECTRONIC BEAM STEERING; INDUCED EMF METHOD;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 12844250045     PISSN: 10689605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10776-004-1241-2     Document Type: Article

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