Spherical lens antenna designs with particle swarm optimization

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1655-1659

  Fuchs, Benjamin ^a   Golubovic, Ruzica ^a   Skrivervik, Anja K ^a   Mosig, Juan R ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Iens antennas; Inhomogeneous lenses; Millimeter wave antenna; Optimization

Indexed keywords

BINARY PSO; COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; DESIGN PROCEDURE; DIRECTIVITY; DUAL-BEAM; FULL WAVES; INHOMOGENEOUS LENS; LENS ANTENNA; LUNEBURG LENS; MILLIMETER WAVE ANTENNA; MILLIMETER-WAVE ANTENNAS; MODE MATCHING TECHNIQUE; NUMERICAL COMPARISON; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; RADIATION PATTERNS; RE-CONFIGURABLE; SECTORAL BEAM]; SPHERICAL LENS ANTENNAS; SPHERICAL WAVE EXPANSION;

DESIGN; LENSES; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); SPHERES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

LENS ANTENNAS;

EID: 77952145758     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: 10982760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.25278     Document Type: Article

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