Design of fully digital controlled reconfigurable dual-beam concentric ring array antenna using gravitational search algorithm

Progress In Electromagnetics Research C

Volumn 18, Issue , 2011, Pages 59-72

  Chatterjee, A ^a   Mahanti, G K ^a   Mahapatra, P R S ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNA LOBES; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE SHIFTERS; RADAR SYSTEMS;

AMPLITUDE DISTRIBUTIONS; CONCENTRIC RINGS; DIGITAL PHASE SHIFTER; DISCRETE PHASE; GRAVITATIONAL SEARCH ALGORITHM (GSA); GRAVITATIONAL SEARCH ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; SIDELOBE LEVELS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 79951990471     PISSN: 19378718     EISSN: 15309681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIERC10101806     Document Type: Article

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