Design of broadband planar arrays based on the optimization of aperiodic tilings

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 76-86

  Spence, Thomas G ^a   Werner, Douglas H ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aperiodic arrays; Aperiodic tilings; Broadband arrays; Genetic algorithms (GAs); Tiling theory; Wideband arrays

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA LOBES; BANDWIDTH; BROADBAND NETWORKS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

APERIODIC ARRAY; BROADBAND ARRAY; TILING THEORY;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 39449127035     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.913145     Document Type: Article

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