A mobile communication base station antenna using a genetic algorithm based fabry-pérot resonance optimization

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 2 PART 2, 2012, Pages 1053-1058

  Kim, Dongho ^a   Ju, Jeongho ^b   Choi, Jaeick ^b  

^a Sejong University   (South Korea)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Base station antenna; Fabry P rot cavity antenna; High gain antenna; Hybrid genetic algorithm; Wideband antenna

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA GAINS; ANTENNA OPTIMIZATION; BASE STATION ANTENNAS; DESIGN APPROACHES; DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATES; HIGH GAIN; HIGH GAIN ANTENNAS; HYBRID GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LATERAL DIRECTIONS; LIMITED APERTURE; MEASURED RESULTS; MOBILE COMMUNICATION BASE STATION ANTENNAS; PREDICTION METHODS; RADIATION BANDWIDTH; REAL-VALUE CODING; RESONANCE CONDITION; SUPERSTRATES; TARGET FREQUENCIES; WIDE BANDWIDTH; WIDE-BAND; WIDEBAND ANTENNA;

BANDWIDTH; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84863066450     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2173108     Document Type: Article

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