Design and optimization of compact balanced antipodal staircase bow-tie antenna

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 1135-1138

  Dadgarpour, Abdolmehdi ^a   Dadashzadeh, Gholamreza ^b   Naser Moghadasi, Mohammad ^a   Jolani, Farid ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHAHED UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Balanced antipodal bow tie antenna; Finite difference time domain (FDTD); Particle swarm optimization (PSO); Ultrawideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

BAND FREQUENCIES; BOW-TIE ANTENNAS; CROSS-POLARIZATION LEVEL; DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN; GAIN VALUES; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS; SHAPE AND SIZE;

ANTENNAS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FREQUENCY BANDS; STAIRS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

EID: 77950515050     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2009.2034282     Document Type: Article

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