Evolutionary synthesis of non-uniform partially reflective surfaces for beam shaping of microstrip antennas

ICEAA 2003 - International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 675-678

  Hoorfar, Ahmad ^a   Zhu, Jinhui ^a   Engheta, Nader ^b  

^a Villanova University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM-SHAPING; CONTINUOUS PARAMETERS; GAIN OPTIMIZATION; INTEGRAL-EQUATION TECHNIQUE; NARROW STRIPS; PARTIALLY REFLECTIVE SURFACE; PATTERN SYNTHESIS; SELF-ADAPTIVE EVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; ELECTROMAGNETISM; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA FEEDERS;

EID: 34047217005     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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