Synthesis of a prefractal dual-band monopolar antenna for GPS applications

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 361-364

  Azaro, Renzo ^a   De Natale, Francesco ^a   Donelli, Massimo ^a   Zeni, Edoardo ^a   Massa, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antennas synthesis; Global positioning system (GPS); Microstrip antennas; Multiband antennas; Particle swarm optimizer; Prefractal antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS SYNTHESIS; DUAL BAND ANTENNAS; DUAL-BAND; ELECTRICAL PARAMETER; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; GPS APPLICATIONS; MULTIBAND ANTENNAS; NUMERICAL DATA; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARTICLE SWARM ALGORITHM; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZER; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZERS; GLOBAL POSITIONING; MICROSTRIPES; PREFRACTAL ANTENNAS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 34548327422     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2006.880695     Document Type: Article

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