A novel neural network combined with FDTD for the synthesis of a printed dipole antenna

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2231-2236

  Delgado, Heriberto Jose ^a   Thursby, Michael H ^b  

^a National Center for Health Statistics   (United States)

^b Command Technologies Incorporated ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna measurements; Antenna theory; Antennas; Computation time; Design automation; Dipole antennas; Finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods; Neural network architecture; Neural networks applications; Numerical analysis; Optimization methods

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ANTENNA MEASUREMENTS; ANTENNA THEORY; COMPUTATION TIME; DESIGN AUTOMATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; NEURAL NETWORK APPLICATIONS; NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 23044510525     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.850706     Document Type: Article

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