Optimal design of a linear antenna array under the restriction of uniform excitation distribution using a particle swarm optimization based method

WSEAS Transactions on Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 52-59

  Zaharis, Z ^a   Kampitaki, Dimitra ^a   Papastergiou, A ^a   Hatzigaidas, A ^a   Lazaridis, Pavlos ^a   Spasos, M ^a  

^a ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antenna array synthesis; Antenna arrays; Antenna beam forming; Particle swarm optimization

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); OPTIMIZATION;

ANTENNA BEAM-FORMING; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION; WIRE-DIPOLE ARRAYS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 33847694277     PISSN: 11092742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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