A parallel electromagnetic genetic-algorithm optimization (EGO) application for patch antenna design

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2424-2435

  Villegas, Frank J ^a   Cwik, Tom ^b   Rahmat Samii, Yahya ^c   Manteghi, Majid ^c  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

FULL WAVE ANALYSIS; GENETIC ALGORITHM OPTIMIZATION; PATCH ANTENNA;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 4644222016     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.834071     Document Type: Article

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