GA/FDTD technique for the design and optimisation of periodic metamaterials

IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 158-164

  Ge, Y ^a   Esselle, K P ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MAGNETIC CONDUCTORS; COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUE; DUAL-BAND; ELECTROMAGNETIC TECHNIQUES; FDTD METHOD; FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE SURFACES; GROUND PLANES; METAMATERIAL STRUCTURES; MICRO GENETIC ALGORITHM; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX MATERIALS; OPTIMISATIONS; PERFECT MATCHED LAYERS; PERIODIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; TRANSMISSION LINE ELEMENTS;

DESIGN; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; METAMATERIALS; OPTIMIZATION; PERIODIC STRUCTURES;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 56349103843     PISSN: 17518725     EISSN: 17518733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-map:20050313     Document Type: Article

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