Neural Networks-Method of Moments (NN-MoM) for the efficient filling of the coupling matrix

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1521-1529

  Soliman, Ezzeldin A ^a,b   Bakr, Mohamed H ^a   Nikolova, Natalia K ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Method of moments (MoM); Neural networks (NNs); Patch antenna arrays; Radial basis functions (RBFs)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

COUPLING MATRIX; PATCH ANTENNA ARRAY;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 2942717166     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.829846     Document Type: Article

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